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# daxctl-enable-device (1)

[NAME](/ndctl-user-guide/v71/daxctl-man-pages/daxctl-enable-device.md#name)\
[SYNOPSIS](/ndctl-user-guide/v71/daxctl-man-pages/daxctl-enable-device.md#synopsis)\
[EXAMPLES<br>](/ndctl-user-guide/v71/daxctl-man-pages/daxctl-enable-device.md#examples)[DESCRIPTION](/ndctl-user-guide/v71/daxctl-man-pages/daxctl-enable-device.md#description)[<br>](/ndctl-user-guide/v71/daxctl-man-pages/daxctl-create-device.md#examples)[OPTIONS](/ndctl-user-guide/v71/daxctl-man-pages/daxctl-enable-device.md#options)\
[COPYRIGHT](/ndctl-user-guide/v71/daxctl-man-pages/daxctl-enable-device.md#copyright)\
[SEE ALSO](/ndctl-user-guide/v71/daxctl-man-pages/daxctl-enable-device.md#see-also)

## NAME <a href="#name" id="name"></a>

daxctl-enable-device - Enable a devdax device

## SYNOPSIS <a href="#synopsis" id="synopsis"></a>

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

## EXAMPLES <a href="#examples" id="examples"></a>

* 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 <a href="#description" id="description"></a>

Enables a dax device in *devdax* mode.

## OPTIONS <a href="#options" id="options"></a>

`-r; --region=`\
&#x20;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`\
&#x20;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`\
&#x20;Emit more debug messages

## COPYRIGHT <a href="#copyright" id="copyright"></a>

Copyright © 2016 - 2020, Intel Corporation. License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

## SEE ALSO <a href="#see-also" id="see-also"></a>

[daxctl-list](/ndctl-user-guide/v71/daxctl-man-pages/untitled-2.md),[daxctl-reconfigure-device](/ndctl-user-guide/v71/daxctl-man-pages/daxctl-reconfigure-device.md),[daxctl-create-device](/ndctl-user-guide/v71/daxctl-man-pages/daxctl-create-device.md)