---
name: "daxctl-enable-device"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ndctl"
version: "85-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/daxctl-enable-device"
---

# daxctl-enable-device(1)

Enable a devdax device

## NAME

daxctl-enable-device - Enable a devdax device

## SYNOPSIS

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

## 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

Enables a dax device in *devdax* mode.

## 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 © 2016 - 2022, 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

[daxctl-list(1)](/daxctl-list/1.md),daxctl-reconfigure-device\[1\],daxctl-create-device\[1\]