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NAME top

   pvs — Display information about physical volumes

SYNOPSIS top

   **pvs**
       [ _optionargs_ ]
       [ _positionargs_ ]

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 initial‐
          ized 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)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) for more information about profiles.

   **--config** _String_
          Config settings for the command. These override [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html)
          settings.   The  String  arg  uses  the  same   format   as
          [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html),   or   may   use  section/field  syntax.   See
          [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) for more information about config.

   **--configreport log**|**vg**|**lv**|**pv**|**pvseg**|**seg**
          See [lvmreport(7)](../man7/lvmreport.7.html).

   **-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  re‐
          peated  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)](../man8/lvmdevices.8.html) command.  This overrides the [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html)  **de‐**
          **vices/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)](../man7/lvmsystemid.7.html) for more information about foreign  VGs.

   **-h**|**--help**
          Display help text.

   **--ignorelockingfailure**
          Allows a command to continue with read-only metadata opera‐
          tions after locking failures.

   **--journal** _String_
          Record  information  in the systemd journal.  This informa‐
          tion 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.  de‐
          bug: record full command debugging.

   **--lockopt** _String_
          Used to pass options for special cases  to  lvmlockd.   See
          [lvmlockd(8)](../man8/lvmlockd.8.html) 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 com‐
          mand  may  read more devices to find PVs when hints are not
          used. The command will still perform standard hint file in‐
          validation where appropriate.

   **--nolocking**
          Disable locking.

   **--nosuffix**
          Suppress the suffix on output sizes. Use with --units  (ex‐
          cept 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 de‐
          fault fields, **-** will remove the specified fields  from  the
          default fields, and **#** will compact specified fields (remov‐
          ing 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)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) report section  for  more  config  options.
          See [lvmreport(7)](../man7/lvmreport.7.html) for more information about reporting.

   **--profile** _String_
          An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depend‐
          ing 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  ma‐
          chine  image  while  the virtual machine is running. No at‐
          tempt 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  de‐
          fined  globally  by  the  report/output_format  setting  in
          [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html).  **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)](../man7/lvmreport.7.html) 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 speci‐
          fied criteria.  The criteria syntax is described  by  **--se‐**
          **lect  help** and  [lvmreport(7)](../man7/lvmreport.7.html).  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  se‐
          lected)  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)](../man8/lvmlockd.8.html) for more information about shared VGs.

   **-O**|**--sort** _String_
          Comma-separated ordered list of columns  to  sort  by.  Re‐
          places 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 never‐
          theless 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)ec‐
          tors, (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  speci‐
          fied, 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 as‐
          sume the answer yes. Use with extreme caution.  (For  auto‐
          matic no, see -qq.)

VARIABLES top

   _PV_     Physical Volume name, a device path under /dev.  For com‐
          mands managing physical extents, a PV positional arg gener‐
          ally 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)](../man8/lvm.8.html) 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.  In‐
          put 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)](../man8/lvm.8.html) 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)](../man8/lvm.8.html), [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html), [lvmconfig(8)](../man8/lvmconfig.8.html), [lvmdevices(8)](../man8/lvmdevices.8.html),

   [pvchange(8)](../man8/pvchange.8.html), [pvck(8)](../man8/pvck.8.html), [pvcreate(8)](../man8/pvcreate.8.html), [pvdisplay(8)](../man8/pvdisplay.8.html), [pvmove(8)](../man8/pvmove.8.html),
   [pvremove(8)](../man8/pvremove.8.html), [pvresize(8)](../man8/pvresize.8.html), [pvs(8)](../man8/pvs.8.html), [pvscan(8)](../man8/pvscan.8.html),

   [vgcfgbackup(8)](../man8/vgcfgbackup.8.html), [vgcfgrestore(8)](../man8/vgcfgrestore.8.html), [vgchange(8)](../man8/vgchange.8.html), [vgck(8)](../man8/vgck.8.html),
   [vgcreate(8)](../man8/vgcreate.8.html), [vgconvert(8)](../man8/vgconvert.8.html), [vgdisplay(8)](../man8/vgdisplay.8.html), [vgexport(8)](../man8/vgexport.8.html), [vgextend(8)](../man8/vgextend.8.html),
   [vgimport(8)](../man8/vgimport.8.html), [vgimportclone(8)](../man8/vgimportclone.8.html), [vgimportdevices(8)](../man8/vgimportdevices.8.html), [vgmerge(8)](../man8/vgmerge.8.html),
   [vgmknodes(8)](../man8/vgmknodes.8.html), [vgreduce(8)](../man8/vgreduce.8.html), [vgremove(8)](../man8/vgremove.8.html), [vgrename(8)](../man8/vgrename.8.html), [vgs(8)](../man8/vgs.8.html),
   [vgscan(8)](../man8/vgscan.8.html), [vgsplit(8)](../man8/vgsplit.8.html),

   [lvcreate(8)](../man8/lvcreate.8.html), [lvchange(8)](../man8/lvchange.8.html), [lvconvert(8)](../man8/lvconvert.8.html), [lvdisplay(8)](../man8/lvdisplay.8.html), [lvextend(8)](../man8/lvextend.8.html),
   [lvreduce(8)](../man8/lvreduce.8.html), [lvremove(8)](../man8/lvremove.8.html), [lvrename(8)](../man8/lvrename.8.html), [lvresize(8)](../man8/lvresize.8.html), [lvs(8)](../man8/lvs.8.html),
   [lvscan(8)](../man8/lvscan.8.html),

   [lvm-fullreport(8)](../man8/lvm-fullreport.8.html), [lvm-lvpoll(8)](../man8/lvm-lvpoll.8.html), [blkdeactivate(8)](../man8/blkdeactivate.8.html), [lvmdump(8)](../man8/lvmdump.8.html),

   [dmeventd(8)](../man8/dmeventd.8.html), [lvmpolld(8)](../man8/lvmpolld.8.html), [lvmlockd(8)](../man8/lvmlockd.8.html), [lvmlockctl(8)](../man8/lvmlockctl.8.html), [cmirrord(8)](../man8/cmirrord.8.html),
   [lvmdbusd(8)](../man8/lvmdbusd.8.html), [fsadm(8)](../man8/fsadm.8.html),

   [lvmsystemid(7)](../man7/lvmsystemid.7.html), [lvmreport(7)](../man7/lvmreport.7.html), [lvmcache(7)](../man7/lvmcache.7.html), [lvmraid(7)](../man7/lvmraid.7.html), [lvmthin(7)](../man7/lvmthin.7.html),
   [lvmvdo(7)](../man7/lvmvdo.7.html), [lvmautoactivation(7)](../man7/lvmautoactivation.7.html)

COLOPHON top

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