Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > xfs_io -c "statx -c /dev/null" > > is what you want That doesn't produce any output. Did you mean: xfs_io -c "statx -c" /dev/null Further, this should work: warthog>xfs_io -c "statx -c" /dev/sda /dev/sda: Permission denied but doesn't. > See the output of 'file' command or the global var filetable. So I would have to make "-d dirfd" take an entry in the global var filetable rather than an actual fd number? David