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<command>&dhpackage;</command>
- <arg choice=plain><option><replaceable>host</replaceable></option></arg>
- <arg choice=plain><option><replaceable>port</replaceable></option></arg>
- <arg choice=plain><option><replaceable>nbd-device</replaceable></option></arg>
- <arg><option>-sdp</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-swap</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-persist</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-nofork</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-block-size <replaceable>block size</replaceable></option></arg>
- <arg><option>-timeout <replaceable>seconds</replaceable></option></arg>
+ <arg choice=plain><replaceable>host</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg><replaceable>port</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice=plain><replaceable>nbd-device</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg>-sdp</arg>
+ <arg>-swap</arg>
+ <arg>-persist</arg>
+ <arg>-nofork</arg>
+ <arg>-block-size <replaceable>block size</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg>-timeout <replaceable>seconds</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg>-name <replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>&dhpackage;</command>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-block-size <replaceable>block size</replaceable></option></term>
+ <term><option>-b</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Use a blocksize of "block size". Default is 1024;
allowed values are either 512, 1024, 2048 or 4096</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>-timeout <replaceable>seconds</replaceable></option></term>
+ <term><option>-timeout
+ <replaceable>seconds</replaceable></option></term>
+ <term><option>-t</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Set the connection timeout to "seconds". For this to
work, you need a kernel with support for the NBD_SET_TIMEOUT
<listitem>
<para>The TCP port on which <command>nbd-server</command> is
running at the server.</para>
+ <para>This option is required, unless the -N option is
+ specified, in which case it is not allowed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>-c</term>
+ <term><option>-check</option></term>
+ <term><option>-c</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Check whether the specified nbd device is
connected.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>-d</term>
+ <term><option>-disconnect</option></term>
+ <term><option>-d</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Disconnect the specified nbd device from the
server</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>-persist</term>
+ <term><option>-persist</option></term>
+ <term><option>-p</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>When this option is specified, &dhpackage; will
immediately try to reconnect an nbd device if the
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-sdp</option></term>
+ <term><option>-S</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Connect to the server using the Socket Direct Protocol
(SDP), rather than IP. See nbd-server(1) for details.
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-swap</option></term>
+ <term><option>-s</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies that this NBD device will be used as
swapspace. This option attempts to prevent deadlocks by
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-nofork</option></term>
+ <term><option>-n</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies that the NBD client should not detach and
daemonize itself. This is mostly useful for debugging.</para>
+ <para>
+ Note that nbd-client will still fork once to trigger an
+ update to the device node's partition table. It is not
+ possible to disable this.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-name</option></term>
+ <term><option>-N</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies the name of the export that we want to use. Required if
+ the port is not specified, not allowed in the other case.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
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<listitem>
<para>To connect to a server running on port 2001 at host
"swapserver.domain.com", using the client's block special
- file "/dev/nb1", for swap purposes:</para>
- <para><command>nbd-client swapserver.domain.com 2001 /dev/nb1
+ file "/dev/nbd1", for swap purposes:</para>
+ <para><command>nbd-client swapserver.domain.com 2001 /dev/nbd1
-swap</command></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>To disconnect the above connection again (after making
sure the block special file is not in use anymore):</para>
- <para><command>nbd-client -d /dev/nb1</command></para>
+ <para><command>nbd-client -d /dev/nbd1</command></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</refsect1>
</refsect1>
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