nvme-list-subsys1
List all nvme subsystems
Usage
nvme [<global-options>]
list-subsys
<device>
Overview
Scan the sysfs tree for NVM Express subsystems and return the controllers for those subsystems as well as some pertinent information about them. If a device is given, print out only the values for the controllers and subsystems leading to the device.
Options
Options
The following options are defined at the top-level nvme command and are available to this subcommand:
-
--dry-run -
Print the command that would be executed, but do not actually execute it.
-
--no-ioctl-probing -
Disable probing for 64-bit IOCTL support.
-
--no-retries -
Disable retry logic on transient errors.
-
-o <fmt>, --output-format=<fmt> -
Set the reporting format to normal, tabular, 'json, or binary. Only one output format may be used at a time.
-
--output-format-version=<version> -
Select the output format version. Version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (default) provides more consistent and script-friendly field names. Other versions are rejected.
-
--quiet -
Suppress informational messages. Errors are still reported, and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level.
-
--set-options=<key=value>[,<key=value>...] -
Set libnvme library options for this invocation. Supported keys are force-4k, mi-probe-enabled, test-base-dir and test-sysfs-dir.
-
--timeout=<ms> -
Set the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 waits without a time limit (0xffffffff).
-
-v, --verbose -
Increase the level of detail in the output. May be specified multiple times to further increase verbosity.
These options can also be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). A command-line flag always overrides the file.
Examples
root@host[1]# nvme list-subsys nvme-subsys0 - NQN=nvmf-test \ +- nvme0 rdma traddr=1.1.1.3,trsvcid=4420,host_traddr=1.1.1.1 +- nvme1 rdma traddr=1.1.1.3,trsvcid=4420,host_traddr=1.1.1.2 nvme-subsys1 - NQN=nvmf-test2 \ +- nvme2 rdma traddr=1.1.1.3,trsvcid=4420,host_traddr=1.1.1.2 +- nvme3 rdma traddr=1.1.1.3,trsvcid=4420,host_traddr=1.1.1.1
root@host[1]# nvme list-subsys -o json
{
"Subsystems" : [
{
"Name" : "nvme-subsys0",
"NQN" : "nvmf-test"
},
{
"Paths" : [
{
"Name" : "nvme0",
"Transport" : "rdma",
"Address" : "traddr=1.1.1.3,trsvcid=4420,host_traddr=1.1.1.1",
"AddressDetails" : {
"traddr" : "1.1.1.3",
"host_traddr" : "1.1.1.1",
"trsvcid" : "4420"
}
},
{
"Name" : "nvme1",
"Transport" : "rdma",
"Address" : "traddr=1.1.1.3,trsvcid=4420,host_traddr=1.1.1.2",
"AddressDetails" : {
"traddr" : "1.1.1.3",
"host_traddr" : "1.1.1.2",
"trsvcid" : "4420"
}
}
]
},
{
"Name" : "nvme-subsys1",
"NQN" : "nvmf-test2"
},
{
"Paths" : [
{
"Name" : "nvme2",
"Transport" : "rdma",
"Address" : "traddr=1.1.1.3,trsvcid=4420,host_traddr=1.1.1.2",
"AddressDetails" : {
"traddr" : "1.1.1.3",
"host_traddr" : "1.1.1.2",
"trsvcid" : "4420"
}
},
{
"Name" : "nvme3",
"Transport" : "rdma",
"Address" : "traddr=1.1.1.3,trsvcid=4420,host_traddr=1.1.1.1",
"AddressDetails" : {
"traddr" : "1.1.1.3",
"host_traddr" : "1.1.1.1",
"trsvcid" : "4420"
}
}
]
}
]
}
Nvme
Part of the nvme-user suite
Notes
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root@host
mailto:root@host
Releases
5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 4 times.
--dry-run since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--no-ioctl-probing since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--no-retries since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--output-format-version since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--quiet since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--set-options since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--timeout since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--verbose since Debian 13 (Trixie);
-v since Debian 13 (Trixie).