NVME-CLI.CONF(5)                  NVMe Manual                 NVME-CLI.CONF(5)

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

SYNOPSIS
       /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
           # /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

NVMe                              09/07/2026                  NVME-CLI.CONF(5)