Editing NVMe Drives (section)

== Configuration ==
Once th edevice is installed, most Linux kernels from 3.3 onward have the nvme driver already installed.  The easiest way to check is to somply look for the drive in the normal places:
 cat /proc/partitions
 ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
 ls -l /dev/nvme*

All of these should show at least one entry:  '''''nvme0n1''''' -- this is the base partition of the NVMe drive itself.  The '''''nvme0''''' part of the device name is the name of the device controller, and the '''''n1''''' is the namespace (think of it as a soft hardware partition).

Partition like a normal disk drive:
 fdisk /dev/nvme0n1

This will create partitions called '''''nvme0n1p1''''', etc.  At this point you can format it like any other drive<ref>Debian does not come with XFS filesystem tools installed by default.  If you want to use XFS to format the drive, you need to install the ''xfsprogs'' package</ref>:
 mkfs.xfs /dev/nvme0n1p1

There is also a command-line utility that knows how to talk to the device controller to get status and to reformat the drive at a low level if needed.  It is not required for simple use, but if needed, just install the ''nvme-cli'' package.

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