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Man page of BLKPR
BLKPR
Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: 2026-06-16
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NAME
blkpr - run a persistent-reservations command on a device
SYNOPSIS
blkpr [options] device
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
-c, --command command
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The command for managing persistent reservations. Supported commands are:
register, reserve, release, preempt, preempt-abort, and clear.
-k, --key key
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The key the command should operate on.
-K, --oldkey oldkey
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The old key the command should operate on.
-f, --flag flag
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Supported flag is ignore-key.
-t, --type type
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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
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Display version information and exit.
-h, --help
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Display help text and exit.
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
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/>
REPORTING BUGS
For bug reports, use the
issue tracker <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.
AVAILABILITY
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/>.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- AUTHORS
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- SEE ALSO
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- AVAILABILITY
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