nvme-cli.conf(5)

# nvme-cli.conf(5) Manual Page

## NAME

nvme-cli.conf - nvme-cli global option defaults file format

## SYNOPSIS

    /usr/local/etc/nvme/nvme-cli.conf

## DESCRIPTION

An INI-format file that sets machine-wide defaults for the global options accepted by every nvme subcommand (see GLOBAL OPTIONS in nvme(1)) — for example, always disabling IOCTL probing without passing --no-ioctl-probing on every invocation.

The file is read once, before command-line parsing, and only sets defaults: an explicit command-line flag always overrides whatever this file set. A missing file is not an error; it simply changes nothing.

There is no --config override and no drop-in directory for this file; it always lives at the path above.

## SECTIONS

The file has a single recognized section, [Global]. Keys outside [Global] (including an unrecognized section) are ignored with a warning. Boolean values accept 1/yes/y/true/t/on and 0/no/n/false/f/off (case-insensitive). Unknown keys and malformed values are ignored with a warning; they do not stop the rest of the file from being applied.

## KEYS

Every key here is the same name as its nvme long option (hyphenated); see GLOBAL OPTIONS in nvme(1) for what each one means.

    verbose, quiet, output-format, timeout, dry-run, no-retries,
    no-ioctl-probing, output-format-version, set-options

verbose takes the desired verbosity level directly (e.g. verbose = 2 is equivalent to -vv), rather than the increment-per-flag behavior of -v on the command line.

## EXAMPLE

    # /usr/local/etc/nvme/nvme-cli.conf

    [Global]
    no-ioctl-probing = true
    output-format = json
    timeout = 5000

## SEE ALSO

nvme(1)

## NVME

Part of the nvme-user suite