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How to check serial number of NVMe disk?

To check serial number for sda and sdb I used:

sudo lsblk --raw -o name,type,serial

However it does not work for NVMe disks (nvme0n0, nvme0n1 etc). No information about serial number is provided.

LiveWireBT
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Hash Doe
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The nvme tool provides options to obtain NVME device information, for example, to install the tool, list the NVME devices and look at the id control fields on /dev/nvme0n1, one would use:

sudo apt-get install nvme-cli
sudo nvme list
sudo nvme id-ctrl /dev/nvme0n1
Colin Ian King
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You can use good old sysfs and cat for that:

$ cat /sys/block/nvme0n1/device/serial
PHNH912345441P0B

Also as @VZ pointed out modern versions of lsblk will output serial numbers for NVMe drives correctly. Example:

$ lsblk -d -o TRAN,NAME,TYPE,MODEL,SERIAL,SIZE
TRAN   NAME         TYPE MODEL               SERIAL             SIZE
       mmcblk0      disk                     0xda61bcdf        14.6G
       mmcblk0boot0 disk                     0xda61bcdf           4M
       mmcblk0boot1 disk                     0xda61bcdf           4M
nvme   nvme0n1      disk INTEL SSDPEKNW010T8 PHNH912345441P0B 953.9G
Mariusz Kogen
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Note that there are two kinds of M.2 drives - the NVMe and the SATA - and they present completely different interfaces.

This is as evidenced by the completely different dev device name: /dev/sd? for SATA, and /dev/nvme0n1 for NVMe.

If you download smartmontools 6.6, it has experimental NVMe support built in and can show serial number as I remember. (smartctl -a, again IIRC).

Otherwise, for NVMe drives you indeed need the nvme-cli tools to be able to do anything more than smartctl can do.

cocomac
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user500492
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another way to get drive information is to run hdparm

sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sdb

That will give you info on both your disks

FWIW , my laptop has a built in LITEONIT LMT-512L9M-11 MSATA 512GB which does report its serial number via your command and mine. It maybe that your disk doesn't actually return it or that its newness means not enough linux developers have access to them.

Amias
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