SYNOPSIS

nvme transcend badblock <device>

DESCRIPTION

For the NVMe device given, sends the Transcend vendor command and return the bad block of the device.

The <device> parameter is mandatory and may be either the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0), or a namespace block device (ex: /dev/nvme0n1).

On success, the returned value would print the amount of bad blocks.

OPTIONS

none

EXAMPLES

  • Print the Transcend device’s bad blocks in a human readable format: 

    # nvme transcend badblock /dev/nvme0

NVME

Part of the nvme-user suite