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NAME

       pvs — Display information about physical volumes

SYNOPSIS

       pvs
           [ option_args ]
           [ position_args ]

DESCRIPTION

       pvs produces formatted output about PVs.

USAGE

       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

       --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
              Restricts the devices that are visible and accessible to the command.  Devices  not
              listed  will  appear to be missing. 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. Use  with  caution,  concurrent  commands  may  produce  incorrect
              results.

       --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

       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

       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

       The pv_attr bits are:

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

       2  e(x)ported

       3  (m)issing

SEE ALSO

       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), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmcache(7)