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NAME top

 udevadm - udev management tool

SYNOPSIS top

 udevadm [--debug] [--version] [--help]
 udevadm info [options...] [devpath|syspath|id|unit...]
 udevadm trigger [options...] [devpath|syspath|id|unit...]
 udevadm settle [options...]
 udevadm control options...
 udevadm monitor [options...]
 udevadm test [options...] devpath|syspath|id|unit
 udevadm test-builtin [options...] command devpath|syspath|id|unit
 udevadm verify [options...] [files...]
 udevadm cat [options...] [files...]
 udevadm wait [options...] devpath|syspath...
 udevadm lock [options...] command...

DESCRIPTION top

 udevadm expects a command and command specific options. It
 controls the runtime behavior of systemd-udevd, requests kernel
 events, manages the event queue, and provides simple debugging
 mechanisms.

OPTIONS top

 -d, --debug
 Print debug messages to standard error. This option is implied
 in udevadm test and udevadm test-builtin commands.
 -V, --version
 Print a short version string and exit.
 -h, --help
 Print a short help text and exit.
 udevadm info [options...] [devpath|syspath|id|unit...]
 Query the udev database for device information.
 Positional arguments should be used to specify one or more
 devices. Each one may be a device name (in which case it must
 start with /dev/), a sys path (in which case it must start with
 /sys/), a device ID (such as "n1", "c5:1", or "b259:1", see
 sd_device_get_device_id(3)). or a systemd device unit name (in
 which case it must end with ".device", see systemd.device(5)).
 -q, --query=TYPE
 Query the database for the specified type of device data.
 Valid TYPEs are: name, symlink, path, property, all.
 --property=NAME
 When showing device properties using the --query=property
 option, limit display to properties specified in the argument.
 The argument should be a comma-separated list of property
 names. If not specified, all known properties are shown.
 Added in version 250.
 --value
 When showing device properties using the --query=property
 option, print only their values, and skip the property name
 and "=".
 Cannot be used together with -x/--export or
 -P/--export-prefix.
 Added in version 250.
 -p, --path=DEVPATH
 The /sys/ path of the device to query, e.g.
 [/sys/]/class/block/sda. This option is an alternative to the
 positional argument with a /sys/ prefix. udevadm info
 --path=/class/block/sda is equivalent to udevadm info
 /sys/class/block/sda.
 -n, --name=FILE
 The name of the device node or a symlink to query, e.g.
 [/dev/]/sda. This option is an alternative to the positional
 argument with a /dev/ prefix. udevadm info --name=sda is
 equivalent to udevadm info /dev/sda.
 -r, --root
 Print absolute paths in name or symlink query.
 -a, --attribute-walk
 Print all sysfs properties of the specified device that can be
 used in udev rules to match the specified device. It prints
 all devices along the chain, up to the root of sysfs that can
 be used in udev rules.
 This switch supports JSON output mode (see --json= below).
 Note that because this switch generates multiple JSON objects,
 JSON-SEQ mode is automatically enabled (RFC7464). (Note: tools
 such as jq[1] natively support JSON-SEQ via the --seq switch.)
 -t, --tree
 Display a sysfs tree. This recursively iterates through the
 sysfs hierarchy and displays it in a tree structure. If a path
 is specified only the subtree below and its parent directories
 are shown. This will show both device and subsystem items.
 Added in version 251.
 -x, --export
 Print output as key/value pairs. Values are enclosed in single
 quotes. This takes effects only when --query=property or
 --device-id-of-file=FILE is specified.
 -P, --export-prefix=NAME
 Add a prefix to the key name of exported values. This implies
 --export.
 -d, --device-id-of-file=FILE
 Print major/minor numbers of the underlying device, where the
 file lives on. If this is specified, all positional arguments
 are ignored.
 -e, --export-db
 Export the content of the udev database.
 -c, --cleanup-db
 Cleanup the udev database.
 -w[SECONDS], --wait-for-initialization[=SECONDS]
 Wait for device to be initialized. If argument SECONDS is not
 specified, the default is to wait forever.
 Added in version 243.
 --subsystem-match[=SUBSYSTEM], --subsystem-nomatch[=SUBSYSTEM]
 When used with --export-db, only show devices of or not of the
 given subsystem respectively.
 Added in version 255.
 --attr-match[=FILE[=VALUE]], --attr-nomatch[=FILE[=VALUE]]
 When used with --export-db, only show devices matching or not
 matching the given attribute respectively.
 Added in version 255.
 --property-match[=KEY=VALUE]
 When used with --export-db, only show devices matching the
 given property and value.
 Added in version 255.
 --tag-match[=TAG]
 When used with --export-db, only show devices with the given
 tag.
 Added in version 255.
 --sysname-match[=NAME]
 When used with --export-db, only show devices with the given
 "/sys" path.
 Added in version 255.
 --name-match[=NAME]
 When used with --export-db, only show devices with the given
 name in "/dev".
 Added in version 255.
 --parent-match[=NAME]
 When used with --export-db, only show devices with the given
 parent device.
 Added in version 255.
 --initialized-match, --initialized-nomatch
 When used with --export-db, only show devices that are
 initialized or not initialized respectively.
 Added in version 255.
 --json=MODE
 Shows output formatted as JSON. Expects one of "short" (for
 the shortest possible output without any redundant whitespace
 or line breaks), "pretty" (for a pretty version of the same,
 with indentation and line breaks) or "off" (to turn off JSON
 output, the default).
 --no-pager
 Do not pipe output into a pager.
 The generated output shows the current device database entry in a
 terse format. Each line shown is prefixed with one of the
 following characters:
 Table 1. udevadm info output prefixes
 ┌────────┬──────────────────────────┐
 │ Prefix Meaning │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "P:" │ Device path in /sys/ │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "M:" │ Device name in /sys/ │
 │ │ (i.e. the last component │
 │ │ of "P:") │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "R:" │ Device number in /sys/ │
 │ │ (i.e. the numeric suffix │
 │ │ of the last component of │
 │ │ "P:") │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "J:" │ Device ID │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "U:" │ Kernel subsystem │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "B:" │ Driver subsystem │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "T:" │ Kernel device type │
 │ │ within subsystem │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "D:" │ Kernel device node │
 │ │ major/minor │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "I:" │ Network interface index │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "N:" │ Kernel device node name │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "L:" │ Device node symlink │
 │ │ priority │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "S:" │ Device node symlink │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "Q:" │ Block device sequence │
 │ │ number (DISKSEQ) │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "V:" │ Attached driver │
 ├────────┼──────────────────────────┤
 │ "E:" │ Device property │
 └────────┴──────────────────────────┘
 udevadm trigger [options...] [devpath|syspath|id|unit...]
 Request device events from the kernel. Primarily used to replay
 events at system coldplug time.
 Takes device specifications as positional arguments. See the
 description of udevadm info above.
 -v, --verbose
 Print the list of devices which will be triggered.
 -n, --dry-run
 Do not actually trigger the event.
 -q, --quiet
 Suppress error logging in triggering events.
 Added in version 248.
 -t, --type=TYPE
 Trigger a specific type of devices. Valid types are "all",
 "devices", and "subsystems". The default value is "devices".
 -c, --action=ACTION
 Type of event to be triggered. Possible actions are "add",
 "remove", "change", "move", "online", "offline", "bind", and
 "unbind". Also, the special value "help" can be used to list
 the possible actions. The default value is "change".
 --prioritized-subsystem=SUBSYSTEM[,SUBSYSTEM...]
 Takes a comma separated list of subsystems. When triggering
 events for devices, the devices from the specified subsystems
 and their parents are triggered first. For example, if
 --prioritized-subsystem=block,net, then firstly all block
 devices and their parents are triggered, in the next all
 network devices and their parents are triggered, and lastly
 the other devices are triggered. This option can be specified
 multiple times, and in that case the lists of the subsystems
 will be merged. That is, --prioritized-subsystem=block
 --prioritized-subsystem=net is equivalent to
 --prioritized-subsystem=block,net.
 Added in version 251.
 -s, --subsystem-match=SUBSYSTEM
 Trigger events for devices which belong to a matching
 subsystem. This option supports shell style pattern matching.
 When this option is specified more than once, then each
 matching result is ORed, that is, all the devices in each
 subsystem are triggered.
 -S, --subsystem-nomatch=SUBSYSTEM
 Do not trigger events for devices which belong to a matching
 subsystem. This option supports shell style pattern matching.
 When this option is specified more than once, then each
 matching result is ANDed, that is, devices which do not match
 all specified subsystems are triggered.
 -a, --attr-match=ATTRIBUTE=VALUE
 Trigger events for devices with a matching sysfs attribute. If
 a value is specified along with the attribute name, the
 content of the attribute is matched against the given value
 using shell style pattern matching. If no value is specified,
 the existence of the sysfs attribute is checked. When this
 option is specified multiple times, then each matching result
 is ANDed, that is, only devices which have all specified
 attributes are triggered.
 -A, --attr-nomatch=ATTRIBUTE=VALUE
 Do not trigger events for devices with a matching sysfs
 attribute. If a value is specified along with the attribute
 name, the content of the attribute is matched against the
 given value using shell style pattern matching. If no value is
 specified, the existence of the sysfs attribute is checked.
 When this option is specified multiple times, then each
 matching result is ANDed, that is, only devices which have
 none of the specified attributes are triggered.
 -p, --property-match=PROPERTY=VALUE
 Trigger events for devices with a matching property value.
 This option supports shell style pattern matching. When this
 option is specified more than once, then each matching result
 is ORed, that is, devices which have one of the specified
 properties are triggered.
 -g, --tag-match=TAG
 Trigger events for devices with a matching tag. When this
 option is specified multiple times, then each matching result
 is ANDed, that is, devices which have all specified tags are
 triggered.
 -y, --sysname-match=NAME
 Trigger events for devices for which the last component (i.e.
 the filename) of the /sys/ path matches the specified PATH.
 This option supports shell style pattern matching. When this
 option is specified more than once, then each matching result
 is ORed, that is, all devices which have any of the specified
 NAME are triggered.
 --name-match=NAME
 Trigger events for devices with a matching device path. When
 this option is specified more than once, then each matching
 result is ORed, that is, all specified devices are triggered.
 Added in version 218.
 -b, --parent-match=SYSPATH
 Trigger events for all children of a given device. When this
 option is specified more than once, then each matching result
 is ORed, that is, all children of each specified device are
 triggered.
 --initialized-match, --initialized-nomatch
 When --initialized-match is specified, trigger events for
 devices that are already initialized by systemd-udevd, and
 skip devices that are not initialized yet.
 When --initialized-nomatch is specified, trigger events for
 devices that are not initialized by systemd-udevd yet, and
 skip devices that are already initialized.
 Typically, it is essential that applications which intend to
 use such a match, make sure a suitable udev rule is installed
 that sets at least one property on devices that shall be
 matched. See also Initialized Devices section below for more
 details.
 Warning
 --initialized-nomatch can potentially save a significant
 amount of time compared to re-triggering all devices in
 the system and e.g. can be used to optimize boot time.
 However, this is not safe to be used in a boot sequence in
 general. Especially, when udev rules for a device depend
 on its parent devices (e.g. "ATTRS" or "IMPORT{parent}"
 keys, see udev(7) for more details), the final state of
 the device becomes easily unstable with this option.
 Added in version 251.
 --include-parents
 Trigger parent devices of found devices even if the parents
 will not match the filter condition. This is useful if we are
 interested to limit the coldplug activities to some devices or
 subsystems.
 Added in version 258.
 -w, --settle
 Apart from triggering events, also waits for those events to
 finish. Note that this is different from calling udevadm
 settle. udevadm settle waits for all events to finish. This
 option only waits for events triggered by the same command to
 finish.
 Added in version 238.
 --uuid
 Trigger the synthetic device events, and associate a
 randomized UUID with each. These UUIDs are printed to standard
 output, one line for each event. These UUIDs are included in
 the uevent environment block (in the "SYNTH_UUID=" property)
 and may be used to track delivery of the generated events.
 Added in version 249.
 --wait-daemon[=SECONDS]
 Before triggering uevents, wait for systemd-udevd daemon to be
 initialized. Optionally takes timeout value. Default timeout
 is 5 seconds. This is equivalent to invoking udevadm control
 --ping before udevadm trigger.
 Added in version 241.
 In addition, optional positional arguments can be used to specify
 device names or sys paths. They must start with /dev/ or /sys/
 respectively.
 udevadm settle [options...]
 Watches the udev event queue, and exits if all current events are
 handled.
 -t, --timeout=SECONDS
 Maximum number of seconds to wait for the event queue to
 become empty. The default value is 120 seconds. A value of 0
 will check if the queue is empty and always return
 immediately. A non-zero value will return an exit code of 0 if
 queue became empty before timeout was reached, non-zero
 otherwise.
 -E, --exit-if-exists=FILE
 Stop waiting if file exists.
 See systemd-udev-settle.service(8) for more information.
 udevadm control options...
 Modify the internal state of the running udev daemon.
 -e, --exit
 Signal and wait for systemd-udevd to exit. No option except
 for --timeout can be specified after this option. Note that
 systemd-udevd.service contains Restart=always and so as a
 result, this option restarts systemd-udevd. If you want to
 stop systemd-udevd.service, please use the following:
 systemctl stop systemd-udevd-control.socket systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd-varlink.socket systemd-udevd.service
 -l, --log-level=value
 Set the internal log level of systemd-udevd. Valid values are
 the numerical syslog priorities or their textual
 representations: emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice,
 info, and debug.
 -s, --stop-exec-queue
 Signal systemd-udevd to stop executing new events. Incoming
 events will be queued.
 -S, --start-exec-queue
 Signal systemd-udevd to enable the execution of events.
 -R, --reload
 Signal systemd-udevd to reload the rules files and other
 databases like the kernel module index. Reloading rules and
 databases does not apply any changes to already existing
 devices; the new configuration will only be applied to new
 events.
 -p, --property=KEY=value
 Set a global property for all events.
 -m, --children-max=value
 Set the maximum number of events, systemd-udevd will handle at
 the same time. When 0 is specified, then the maximum is
 determined based on the system resources.
 --ping
 Send a ping message to systemd-udevd and wait for the reply.
 This may be useful to check that systemd-udevd daemon is
 running.
 Added in version 241.
 --trace=BOOL
 Enable/disable trace logging in systemd-udevd.
 Added in version 258.
 --revert
 Revert settings previously set with udevadm control command.
 When specified, settings set with -l/--log-level=, --trace,
 -m/--children-max=, and -p/--property= will be cleared.
 Added in version 258.
 -t, --timeout=seconds
 The maximum number of seconds to wait for a reply from
 systemd-udevd.
 --load-credentials
 When specified, the following credentials are used when passed
 in:
 udev.conf.*
 These credentials should contain valid udev.conf(5)
 configuration data. From each matching credential a
 separate file is created. Example: a passed credential
 udev.conf.50-foobar will be copied into a configuration
 file /run/udev/udev.conf.d/50-foobar.conf.
 Added in version 256.
 udev.rules.*
 These credentials should contain valid udev(7) rules. From
 each matching credential a separate file is created.
 Example: a passed credential udev.rules.50-foobar will be
 copied into a configuration file
 /run/udev/rules.d/50-foobar.rules.
 Added in version 256.
 Note, this does not imply --reload option. So, if
 systemd-udevd is already running, please consider to also
 specify -reload to make the copied udev rules files used by
 systemd-udevd.
 Added in version 256.
 udevadm monitor [options...]
 Listens to the kernel uevents and events sent out by a udev rule
 and prints the devpath of the event to the console. It can be used
 to analyze the event timing, by comparing the timestamps of the
 kernel uevent and the udev event.
 -k, --kernel
 Print the kernel uevents.
 -u, --udev
 Print the udev event after the rule processing.
 -p, --property
 Also print the properties of the event.
 -s, --subsystem-match=string[/string]
 Filter kernel uevents and udev events by subsystem[/devtype].
 Only events with a matching subsystem value will pass. When
 this option is specified more than once, then each matching
 result is ORed, that is, all devices in the specified
 subsystems are monitored.
 -t, --tag-match=string
 Filter udev events by tag. Only udev events with a given tag
 attached will pass. When this option is specified more than
 once, then each matching result is ORed, that is, devices
 which have one of the specified tags are monitored.
 udevadm test [options...] devpath|syspath|id|unit
 Simulate a udev event run for the given device, and print debug
 output. The option --json= may be useful for parsing the final
 result. See also Example section.
 -a, --action=ACTION
 Type of event to be simulated. Possible actions are "add",
 "remove", "change", "move", "online", "offline", "bind", and
 "unbind". Also, the special value "help" can be used to list
 the possible actions. The default value is "add".
 -N, --resolve-names=early|late|never
 Specify when udevadm should resolve names of users and groups
 specified in udev rules. When set to early (the default),
 names will be resolved when the rules are parsed. When set to
 late, names will be resolved during the event being processed.
 When set to never, names will never be resolved and relevant
 udev rules will be ignored.
 Added in version 209.
 -D DIR, --extra-rules-dir=DIR
 Also load udev rules files from the specified directory. This
 option can be specified multiple times. It may be useful for
 debugging udev rules by copying some udev rules files to a
 temporary directory, editing them, and specifying the
 directory with this option. Files found in the specified
 directories have a higher priority than rules files in the
 default udev/rules.d directories used by systemd-udevd. See
 udev(7) for more details about the search paths.
 Added in version 258.
 -v, --verbose
 Shows verbose logs in processing udev rules.
 Added in version 258.
 --json=MODE
 Shows output formatted as JSON. Expects one of "short" (for
 the shortest possible output without any redundant whitespace
 or line breaks), "pretty" (for a pretty version of the same,
 with indentation and line breaks) or "off" (to turn off JSON
 output, the default).
 udevadm test-builtin [options...] command devpath|file|unit
 Run a built-in command COMMAND for device DEVPATH, and print debug
 output.
 -a, --action=ACTION
 Type of event to be simulated. Possible actions are "add",
 "remove", "change", "move", "online", "offline", "bind", and
 "unbind". Also, the special value "help" can be used to list
 the possible actions. The default value is "add".
 Added in version 250.
 udevadm verify [options...] [files...]
 Verify syntactic, semantic, and stylistic correctness of udev
 rules files.
 Positional arguments can be used to specify one or more files to
 check. Each argument must be an absolute path to a udev rules file
 or a directory that contains rules files, or a file name of udev
 rules file (e.g. 99-systemd.rules). If a file name is specified,
 the file will be searched in the udev/rules.d directories that are
 processed by systemd-udevd, and searched in the current working
 directory if not found. If no files are specified, the udev rules
 are read from the files located in the same udev/rules.d
 directories that are processed by systemd-udevd. See udev(7) for
 more details about the search paths.
 The exit status is 0 if all specified udev rules files are
 syntactically, semantically, and stylistically correct, and a
 non-zero error code otherwise.
 -N, --resolve-names=early|late|never
 Specify when udevadm should resolve names of users and groups
 specified in udev rules. When set to early (the default),
 names will be resolved when the rules are parsed. When set to
 late, names will not be verified, as systemd-udevd resolves
 names during each event being processed. When set to never,
 names will never be resolved and relevant rules will be
 ignored.
 Added in version 254.
 --root=PATH
 When looking for udev rules files located in the udev/rules.d
 directories, operate on files underneath the specified root
 path PATH. When a file name is specified, and it is not found
 in the udev/rules.d directories, the file will be searched in
 the specified root path PATH, rather than the current working
 directory.
 Added in version 254.
 --no-summary
 Do not show summary.
 Added in version 254.
 --no-style
 Ignore style issues. When specified, even if style issues are
 found in udev rules files, the exit status is 0 if no
 syntactic or semantic errors are found.
 Added in version 254.
 udevadm cat [options...] [file...]
 Show udev rules files or udev.conf.
 Positional arguments can be used to specify one or more files to
 show. Each argument must be an absolute path to a udev rules file
 or a directory that contains rules files, or a file name of udev
 rules file (e.g. 99-systemd.rules). If a file name is specified,
 the file will be searched in the udev/rules.d directories that are
 processed by systemd-udevd, and searched in the current working
 directory if not found. If no files are specified, the udev rules
 are read from the files located in the same udev/rules.d
 directories that are processed by systemd-udevd. See udev(7) for
 more details about the search paths.
 --root=PATH
 When looking for udev rules files located in the udev/rules.d
 directories, operate on files underneath the specified root
 path PATH. When a file name is specified, and it is not found
 in the udev/rules.d directories, the file will be searched in
 the specified root path PATH, rather than the current working
 directory.
 Added in version 258.
 --tldr
 Only print the "interesting" parts of the configuration files,
 skipping comments and empty lines and section headers followed
 only by comments and empty lines.
 Added in version 258.
 --config
 Shows udev.conf(5) files, rather than udev rules files. When
 specified, no udev rules file cannot be specified.
 Added in version 258.
 udevadm wait [options...] devpath|syspath...
 Wait for devices or device symlinks being created and initialized
 by systemd-udevd. Each device path must start with "/dev/" or
 "/sys/", e.g. "/dev/sda",
 "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:3c:00.0-nvme-1-part1",
 "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.6/net/eth0", or
 "/sys/class/net/eth0". This can take multiple devices. This may be
 useful for waiting for devices being processed by systemd-udevd
 after e.g. partitioning or formatting the devices.
 -t, --timeout=SECONDS
 Maximum number of seconds to wait for the specified devices or
 device symlinks being created, initialized, or removed. The
 default value is "infinity".
 Added in version 251.
 --initialized=BOOL
 Check if systemd-udevd initialized devices. Defaults to true.
 When false, the command only checks if the specified devices
 exist. Set false to this setting if there is no udev rules for
 the specified devices, as the devices will never be considered
 as initialized in that case. See Initialized Devices section
 below for more details.
 Added in version 251.
 --removed
 When specified, the command wait for devices being removed
 instead of created or initialized. If this is specified,
 --initialized= will be ignored.
 Added in version 251.
 --settle
 When specified, also watches the udev event queue, and wait
 for all queued events being processed by systemd-udevd.
 Added in version 251.
 udevadm lock [options...] command...
 udevadm lock takes an (advisory) exclusive lock on a block device
 (or all specified devices), as per Locking Block Device Access[2]
 and invokes a program with the locks taken. When the invoked
 program exits the locks are automatically released and its return
 value is propagated as exit code of udevadm lock.
 This tool is in particular useful to ensure that
 systemd-udevd.service(8) does not probe a block device while
 changes are made to it, for example partitions created or file
 systems formatted. Note that many tools that interface with block
 devices natively support taking relevant locks, see for example
 sfdisk(8)'s --lock switch.
 The command expects at least one block device specified via
 --device= or --backing=, and a command line to execute as
 arguments.
 --device=DEVICE, -d DEVICE
 Takes a path to a device node of the device to lock. This
 switch may be used multiple times (and in combination with
 --backing=) in order to lock multiple devices. If a partition
 block device node is specified the containing "whole" block
 device is automatically determined and used for the lock, as
 per the specification. If multiple devices are specified, they
 are deduplicated, sorted by the major/minor of their device
 nodes and then locked in order.
 This switch must be used at least once, to specify at least
 one device to lock. (Alternatively, use --backing=, see
 below.)
 Added in version 251.
 --backing=PATH, -b PATH
 If a path to a device node is specified, identical to
 --device=. However, this switch alternatively accepts a path
 to a regular file or directory, in which case the block device
 of the file system the file/directory resides on is
 automatically determined and used as if it was specified with
 --device=.
 Added in version 251.
 --timeout=SECS, -t SECS
 Specifies how long to wait at most until all locks can be
 taken. Takes a value in seconds, or in the usual supported
 time units, see systemd.time(7). If specified as zero the lock
 is attempted and if not successful the invocation will
 immediately fail. If passed as "infinity" (the default) the
 invocation will wait indefinitely until the lock can be
 acquired. If the lock cannot be taken in the specified time
 the specified command will not be executed and the invocation
 will fail.
 Added in version 251.
 --print, -p
 Instead of locking the specified devices and executing a
 command, just print the device paths that would be locked, and
 execute no command. This command is useful to determine the
 "whole" block device in case a partition block device is
 specified. The devices will be sorted by their device node
 major number as primary ordering key and the minor number as
 secondary ordering key (i.e. they are shown in the order
 they'd be locked). Note that the number of lines printed here
 can be less than the number of --device= and --backing=
 switches specified in case these resolve to the same "whole"
 devices.
 Added in version 251.

INITIALIZED DEVICES top

 Initialized devices are those for which at least one udev rule
 already completed execution – for any action but "remove" — that
 set a property or other device setting (and thus has an entry in
 the udev device database). Devices are no longer considered
 initialized if a "remove" action is seen for them (which removes
 their entry in the udev device database). Note that devices that
 have no udev rules are never considered initialized, but might
 still be announced via the sd-device API (or similar).

EXAMPLE top

 Example 1. Format a File System
 Take a lock on the backing block device while creating a file
 system, to ensure that systemd-udevd does not probe or announce
 the new superblock before it is comprehensively written:
 # udevadm lock --device=/dev/sda1 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
 Example 2. Format a RAID File System
 Similar, but take locks on multiple devices at once:
 # udevadm lock --device=/dev/sda1 --device=/dev/sdb1 mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
 Example 3. Copy in a File System
 Take a lock on the backing block device while copying in a
 prepared file system image, to ensure that systemd-udevd does not
 probe or announce the new superblock before it is fully written:
 # udevadm lock -d /dev/sda1 dd if=fs.raw of=/dev/sda1
 Example 4. Predict Network Interface Renaming
 To predict a network interface name, udevadm test can be used:
 $ udevadm test /sys/class/net/wlan0 --json=pretty 2>/dev/null | jq .networkInterface.name
 "wlp59s0"
 Example 5. Predict Symbolic links of a Device Node
 To predict symbolic links to a device node, udevadm test can be
 used:
 $ udevadm test /dev/nvme0n1p1 --json=pretty 2>/dev/null | jq .node.symlinks
 [
 "/dev/disk/by-diskseq/1-part1",
 "/dev/disk/by-id/nvme-WDC_PC_SN720_SDAQNTW-512G-1001_192290802247-part1",
 "/dev/disk/by-id/nvme-WDC_PC_SN720_SDAQNTW-512G-1001_192290802247_1-part1",
 "/dev/disk/by-id/nvme-eui.1922908022470001001b448b44ccb9d6-part1",
 "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:3c:00.0-nvme-1-part/by-partnum/1",
 "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:3c:00.0-nvme-1-part1"
 ]
 $ udevadm test /dev/input/event3 --json=pretty 2>/dev/null | jq .node.symlinks
 [
 "/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd"
 ]

SEE ALSO top

 udev(7), systemd-udevd.service(8), udev.conf(5)

NOTES top

 1. jq
 https://jqlang.github.io/jq/manual/
 2. Locking Block Device Access
 https://systemd.io/BLOCK_DEVICE_LOCKING

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Pages that refer to this page: sd-device(3), iocost.conf(5), systemd.link(5), udev.conf(5), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7), systemd.net-naming-scheme(7), systemd.system-credentials(7), udev(7), dmsetup(8), lvmdump(8), systemd-udevd.service(8), systemd-udev-settle.service(8)



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