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PVS(8)                   System Manager's Manual                  PVS(8)

NAME         top

       pvs — Display information about physical volumes

SYNOPSIS         top

       pvs
           [ option_args ]
           [ position_args ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       pvs produces formatted output about PVs.

USAGE         top

       pvs
           [ -a|--all ]
           [ -o|--options String ]
           [ -S|--select String ]
           [ -O|--sort String ]
           [    --segments ]
           [    --aligned ]
           [    --binary ]
           [    --configreport log|vg|lv|pv|pvseg|seg ]
           [    --foreign ]
           [    --ignorelockingfailure ]
           [    --logonly ]
           [    --nameprefixes ]
           [    --noheadings ]
           [    --nosuffix ]
           [    --readonly ]
           [    --reportformat basic|json ]
           [    --rows ]
           [    --separator String ]
           [    --shared ]
           [    --unbuffered ]
           [    --units [Number]r|R|h|H|b|B|s|S|k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T|p|P|e|E
           ]
           [    --unquoted ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
           [ PV|Tag ... ]

       Common options for lvm:
           [ -d|--debug ]
           [ -h|--help ]
           [ -q|--quiet ]
           [ -t|--test ]
           [ -v|--verbose ]
           [ -y|--yes ]
           [    --commandprofile String ]
           [    --config String ]
           [    --devices PV ]
           [    --devicesfile String ]
           [    --driverloaded y|n ]
           [    --journal String ]
           [    --lockopt String ]
           [    --longhelp ]
           [    --nohints ]
           [    --nolocking ]
           [    --profile String ]
           [    --version ]

OPTIONS         top


       --aligned
              Use with --separator to align the output columns

       -a|--all
              Show information about devices that have not been
              initialized by LVM, i.e. they are not PVs.

       --binary
              Use binary values "0" or "1" instead of descriptive
              literal values for columns that have exactly two valid
              values to report (not counting the "unknown" value which
              denotes that the value could not be determined).

       --commandprofile String
              The command profile to use for command configuration.  See
              lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles.

       --config String
              Config settings for the command. These override
              lvm.conf(5) settings.  The String arg uses the same format
              as lvm.conf(5), or may use section/field syntax.  See
              lvm.conf(5) for more information about config.

       --configreport log|vg|lv|pv|pvseg|seg
              See lvmreport(7).

       -d|--debug ...
              Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the
              detail of messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if
              configured).

       --devices PV
              Devices that the command can use. This option can be
              repeated or accepts a comma separated list of devices.
              This overrides the devices file.

       --devicesfile String
              A file listing devices that LVM should use.  The file must
              exist in /etc/lvm/devices/ and is managed with the
              lvmdevices(8) command.  This overrides the lvm.conf(5)
              devices/devicesfile and devices/use_devicesfile settings.

       --driverloaded y|n
              If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-
              mapper.  For testing and debugging.

       --foreign
              Report/display foreign VGs that would otherwise be
              skipped.  See lvmsystemid(7) for more information about
              foreign VGs.

       -h|--help
              Display help text.

       --ignorelockingfailure
              Allows a command to continue with read-only metadata
              operations after locking failures.

       --journal String
              Record information in the systemd journal.  This
              information is in addition to information enabled by the
              lvm.conf log/journal setting.  command: record information
              about the command.  output: record the default command
              output.  debug: record full command debugging.

       --lockopt String
              Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd.  See
              lvmlockd(8) for more information.

       --logonly
              Suppress command report and display only log report.

       --longhelp
              Display long help text.

       --nameprefixes
              Add an "LVM2_" prefix plus the field name to the output.
              Useful with --noheadings to produce a list of field=value
              pairs that can be used to set environment variables (for
              example, in udev rules).

       --noheadings
              Suppress the headings line that is normally the first line
              of output.  Useful if grepping the output.

       --nohints
              Do not use the hints file to locate devices for PVs. A
              command may read more devices to find PVs when hints are
              not used. The command will still perform standard hint
              file invalidation where appropriate.

       --nolocking
              Disable locking.

       --nosuffix
              Suppress the suffix on output sizes. Use with --units
              (except h and H) if processing the output.

       -o|--options String
              Comma-separated, ordered list of fields to display in
              columns.  String arg syntax is: [+|-|#]Field1[,Field2 ...]
              The prefix + will append the specified fields to the
              default fields, - will remove the specified fields from
              the default fields, and # will compact specified fields
              (removing them when empty for all rows.)  Use -o help to
              view the list of all available fields.  Use separate lists
              of fields to add, remove or compact by repeating the -o
              option: -o+field1,field2 -o-field3,field4 -o#field5.
              These lists are evaluated from left to right.  Use field
              name lv_all to view all LV fields, vg_all all VG fields,
              pv_all all PV fields, pvseg_all all PV segment fields,
              seg_all all LV segment fields, and pvseg_all all PV
              segment columns.  See the lvm.conf(5) report section for
              more config options.  See lvmreport(7) for more
              information about reporting.

       --profile String
              An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile,
              depending on the command.

       -q|--quiet ...
              Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and
              --verbose.  Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with
              answer 'no'.

       --readonly
              Run the command in a special read-only mode which will
              read on-disk metadata without needing to take any locks.
              This can be used to peek inside metadata used by a virtual
              machine image while the virtual machine is running. No
              attempt will be made to communicate with the device-mapper
              kernel driver, so this option is unable to report whether
              or not LVs are actually in use.

       --reportformat basic|json
              Overrides current output format for reports which is
              defined globally by the report/output_format setting in
              lvm.conf(5).  basic is the original format with columns
              and rows.  If there is more than one report per command,
              each report is prefixed with the report name for
              identification. json produces report output in JSON
              format. See lvmreport(7) for more information.

       --rows
              Output columns as rows.

       --segments
              Produces one line of output for each contiguous allocation
              of space on each PV, showing the start (pvseg_start) and
              length (pvseg_size) in units of physical extents.

       -S|--select String
              Select objects for processing and reporting based on
              specified criteria.  The criteria syntax is described by
              --select help and lvmreport(7).  For reporting commands,
              one row is displayed for each object matching the
              criteria.  See --options help for selectable object
              fields.  Rows can be displayed with an additional
              "selected" field (-o selected) showing 1 if the row
              matches the selection and 0 otherwise.  For non-reporting
              commands which process LVM entities, the selection is used
              to choose items to process.

       --separator String
              String to use to separate each column. Useful if grepping
              the output.

       --shared
              Report/display shared VGs that would otherwise be skipped
              when lvmlockd is not being used on the host.  See
              lvmlockd(8) for more information about shared VGs.

       -O|--sort String
              Comma-separated ordered list of columns to sort by.
              Replaces the default selection. Precede any column with -
              for a reverse sort on that column.

       -t|--test
              Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata.  This
              is implemented by disabling all metadata writing but
              nevertheless returning success to the calling function.
              This may lead to unusual error messages in multi-stage
              operations if a tool relies on reading back metadata it
              believes has changed but hasn't.

       --unbuffered
              Produce output immediately without sorting or aligning the
              columns properly.

       --units [Number]r|R|h|H|b|B|s|S|k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T|p|P|e|E
              All sizes are output in these units: human-(r)eadable with
              '<' rounding indicator, (h)uman-readable, (b)ytes,
              (s)ectors, (k)ilobytes, (m)egabytes, (g)igabytes,
              (t)erabytes, (p)etabytes, (e)xabytes.  Capitalise to use
              multiples of 1000 (S.I.) instead of 1024.  Custom units
              can be specified, e.g. --units 3M.

       --unquoted
              When used with --nameprefixes, output values in the
              field=value pairs are not quoted.

       -v|--verbose ...
              Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase
              the detail of messages sent to stdout and stderr.

       --version
              Display version information.

       -y|--yes
              Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always
              assume the answer yes. Use with extreme caution.  (For
              automatic no, see -qq.)

VARIABLES         top

       PV     Physical Volume name, a device path under /dev.  For
              commands managing physical extents, a PV positional arg
              generally accepts a suffix indicating a range (or multiple
              ranges) of physical extents (PEs). When the first PE is
              omitted, it defaults to the start of the device, and when
              the last PE is omitted it defaults to end.  Start and end
              range (inclusive): PV[:PE-PE]...  Start and length range
              (counting from 0): PV[:PE+PE]...

       Tag    Tag name.  See lvm(8) for information about tag names and
              using tags in place of a VG, LV or PV.

       String See the option description for information about the
              string content.

       Size[UNIT]
              Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit.
              Input units are always treated as base two values,
              regardless of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer
              to 1024.  The default input unit is specified by letter,
              followed by |UNIT.  UNIT represents other possible input
              units: b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is
              KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB, p|P is PiB, e|E
              is EiB.  (This should not be confused with the output
              control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of
              1000.)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES         top

       See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by
       lvm.  For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a
       required VG parameter.

NOTES         top

       The pv_attr bits are:

       1  (d)uplicate, (a)llocatable, (u)sed

       2  e(x)ported

       3  (m)issing

SEE ALSO         top

       lvm(8), lvm.conf(5), lvmconfig(8), lvmdevices(8),

       pvchange(8), pvck(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), pvmove(8),
       pvremove(8), pvresize(8), pvs(8), pvscan(8),

       vgcfgbackup(8), vgcfgrestore(8), vgchange(8), vgck(8),
       vgcreate(8), vgconvert(8), vgdisplay(8), vgexport(8),
       vgextend(8), vgimport(8), vgimportclone(8), vgimportdevices(8),
       vgmerge(8), vgmknodes(8), vgreduce(8), vgremove(8), vgrename(8),
       vgs(8), vgscan(8), vgsplit(8),

       lvcreate(8), lvchange(8), lvconvert(8), lvdisplay(8),
       lvextend(8), lvreduce(8), lvremove(8), lvrename(8), lvresize(8),
       lvs(8), lvscan(8),

       lvm-fullreport(8), lvm-lvpoll(8), blkdeactivate(8), lvmdump(8),

       dmeventd(8), lvmpolld(8), lvmlockd(8), lvmlockctl(8),
       cmirrord(8), lvmdbusd(8), fsadm(8),

       lvmsystemid(7), lvmreport(7), lvmcache(7), lvmraid(7),
       lvmthin(7), lvmvdo(7), lvmautoactivation(7)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the lvm2 (Logical Volume Manager 2) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://www.sourceware.org/lvm2/⟩.  If you have a bug report for
       this manual page, see ⟨https://github.com/lvmteam/lvm2/issues⟩.
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Red Hat, Inc.     LVM TOOLS 2.03.24(2)-git (2023-11-21)           PVS(8)

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