DAXCTL-ENABLE-DEVICE(1) daxctl Manual DAXCTL-ENABLE-DEVICE(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

daxctl-enable-device - Enable a devdax device

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
daxctl enable-device <dax0.0> [<dax1.0>...<daxY.Z>] [<options>]
```

# [EXAMPLES](#EXAMPLES)

•Enables dax0.1

```
# daxctl enable-device dax0.1
enabled 1 device
```

•Enables all devices in region id 0

```
# daxctl enable-device -r 0 all
enabled 3 devices
```

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Enables a dax device in *devdax* mode.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

-r, --region=

Restrict the operation to devices belonging to the specified region(s). A device-dax region is a contiguous range of memory that hosts one or more /dev/daxX.Y devices, where X is the region id and Y is the device instance id.

-u, --human

By default the command will output machine-friendly raw-integer data. Instead, with this flag, numbers representing storage size will be formatted as human readable strings with units, other fields are converted to hexadecimal strings.

-v, --verbose

Emit more debug messages

# [COPYRIGHT](#COPYRIGHT)

Copyright © 2016 - 2022, Intel Corporation. License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2 &lt;http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html&gt;. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[daxctl-list(1)](/man/os/ndctl/daxctl-list.1),daxctl-reconfigure-device\[1],daxctl-create-device\[1]

2026-10-30 daxctl

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Document: daxctl-enable-device(1) from ndctl 85-r4 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl