nvme-wdc-drive-essentials(1)
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NAME
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nvme-wdc-drive-essentials - Retrieve WDC device's drive essentials bin files and save to a tar file.

SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
'nvme wdc drive-essentials' <device> [--dir-name=<DIRECTORY>, -d <DIRECTORY>] 

DESCRIPTION
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For the NVMe device given, captures the drive essential bin files and saves them into a tar file.  
The tar file will be in the following format:  DRIVE_ESSENTIALS_<Serial Num>_<FW Revision>_<Date>_<Time>.tar.gz 
    e.g. DRIVE_ESSENTIALS_A00FD8CA_1048_20170713_091731.tar.gz

The <device> parameter is mandatory; NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0).

This will only work on WDC devices supporting this feature.
Results for any other device are undefined.

OPTIONS
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-d <DIRECTORY>::
--dir-name=<DIRECTORY>::
	Output directory; defaults to current working directory. 

EXAMPLES
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* Gets the drive essentials data files from the device and saves the tar file in current directory
  (e.g. DRIVE_ESSENTIALS_A00FD8CA_1048_20170713_091731.tar.gz):
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# nvme wdc drive-essentials /dev/nvme0 
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* Gets the drive essentials data files from the device and saves the tar file to specified directory 
  (e.g. /tmp/DRIVE_ESSENTIALS_A00FD8CA_1048_20170713_091731):
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# nvme wdc drive-essentials /dev/nvme0 -d /tmp/ 
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NVME
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Part of the nvme-user suite.