NAME

       pvs - report information about physical volumes

SYNOPSIS

       pvs    [-a|--all]   [--aligned]   [-d|--debug]   [-h|-?|--help]   [--ignorelockingfailure]
       [--nameprefixes]   [--noheadings]    [--nosuffix]    [-o|--options    [+]Field[,Field...]]
       [-O|--sort  [+|-]Key1[,[+|-]Key2...]]   [-P|--partial]  [--rows] [--segments] [--separator
       Separator]  [--unbuffered]  [--units   hHbBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE]   [--unquoted]   [-v|--verbose]
       [--version] [PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...]]

DESCRIPTION

       pvs produces formatted output about physical volumes.

OPTIONS

       See lvm(8) for common options.

       --all  Include information in the output about devices that have not been initialized with
              pvcreate(8).

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

       --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(7) rules).

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

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

       -o, --options
              Comma-separated ordered list of columns.  Precede the list with '+'  to  append  to
              the default selection of columns.

              Use -o pv_all to select all physical volume columns, and -o pvseg_all to select all
              Physical Volume segment columns.

              Use -o help to view the full list of columns available.

              Column names include: pv_fmt, pv_uuid, dev_size, pv_name, pv_mda_free, pv_mda_size,
              pe_start,  pv_size,  pv_free,  pv_used,  pv_attr,  pv_pe_count,  pv_pe_alloc_count,
              pv_tags, pv_mda_count, pv_mda_used_count, pvseg_start, and pvseg_size.

              With --segments, any "pvseg_" prefixes are optional; otherwise any  "pv_"  prefixes
              are  optional.   Columns  mentioned  in vgs(8) can also be chosen. The pv_attr bits
              are: (a)llocatable, e(x)ported and (m)issing.

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

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

       --rows Output columns as rows.

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

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

       --units hHbBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE
              All  sizes  are  output  in  these  units:  (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.  Can also specify
              custom units e.g. --units 3M

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

SEE ALSO

       lvm(8), pvdisplay(8), lvs(8), vgs(8)