BLKPR(8) System Administration BLKPR(8)

blkpr - run a persistent-reservations command on a device

blkpr [options] device

blkpr is used to run a persistent-reservations command on a device that supports the Persistent Reservations feature.

The device argument is the pathname of the block device.

-c, --command command

The command for managing persistent reservations. Supported commands are: register, reserve, release, preempt, preempt-abort, and clear.

-k, --key key

The key the command should operate on.

-K, --oldkey oldkey

The old key the command should operate on.

-f, --flag flag

Supported flag is ignore-key.

-t, --type type

Supported types are write-exclusive, exclusive-access, write-exclusive-reg-only, exclusive-access-reg-only, write-exclusive-all-regs, and exclusive-access-all-regs.

-V, --version

Display version information and exit.

-h, --help

Display help text and exit.

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sg_persist(8)

Linux documentation at: https://docs.kernel.org/block/pr.html iSCSI specification at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3720 NVMe-oF specification at: https://nvmexpress.org/nvme-over-fabrics-part-two/

For bug reports, use the issue tracker https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

The blkpr command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

2025-03-29 util-linux 2.41