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NAME
lvchange — Change the attributes of logical volume(s)
SYNOPSIS
lvchange option_args position_args
[ option_args ]
-a|--activate y|n|ay
--activationmode partial|degraded|complete
--addtag Tag
--alloc contiguous|cling|cling_by_tags|normal|anywhere|inherit
-A|--autobackup y|n
--cachemode writethrough|writeback|passthrough
--cachepolicy String
--cachesettings String
--commandprofile String
--compression y|n
--config String
-C|--contiguous y|n
-d|--debug
--deduplication y|n
--deltag Tag
--detachprofile
--devices PV
--devicesfile String
--discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore
--driverloaded y|n
--errorwhenfull y|n
-f|--force
-h|--help
-K|--ignoreactivationskip
--ignorelockingfailure
--ignoremonitoring
--journal String
--lockopt String
--longhelp
-j|--major Number
--[raid]maxrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
--metadataprofile String
--minor Number
--[raid]minrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
--monitor y|n
--nohints
--nolocking
--noudevsync
-P|--partial
-p|--permission rw|r
-M|--persistent y|n
--poll y|n
--profile String
-q|--quiet
-r|--readahead auto|none|Number
--readonly
--rebuild PV
--refresh
--reportformat basic|json
--resync
-S|--select String
-k|--setactivationskip y|n
--setautoactivation y|n
--[raid]syncaction check|repair
--sysinit
-t|--test
--vdosettings String
-v|--verbose
--version
--[raid]writebehind Number
--[raid]writemostly PV[:t|n|y]
-y|--yes
-Z|--zero y|n
DESCRIPTION
lvchange changes LV attributes in the VG, changes LV activation in the kernel, and
includes other utilities for LV maintenance.
USAGE
Change a general LV attribute.
For options listed in parentheses, any one is
required, after which the others are optional.
lvchange
( -C|--contiguous y|n
-p|--permission rw|r
-r|--readahead auto|none|Number
-k|--setactivationskip y|n
-Z|--zero y|n
-M|--persistent n
--addtag Tag
--deltag Tag
--alloc contiguous|cling|cling_by_tags|normal|anywhere|inherit
--compression y|n
--deduplication y|n
--detachprofile
--metadataprofile String
--profile String
--setautoactivation y|n
--errorwhenfull y|n
--discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore
--cachemode writethrough|writeback|passthrough
--cachepolicy String
--cachesettings String
--[raid]minrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
--[raid]maxrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
--vdosettings String
--[raid]writebehind Number
--[raid]writemostly PV[:t|n|y] )
VG|LV|Tag|Select ...
[ -a|--activate y|n|ay ]
[ --poll y|n ]
[ --monitor y|n ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
—
Resyncronize a mirror or raid LV.
Use to reset 'R' attribute on a not initially synchronized LV.
lvchange --resync VG|LV1|Tag|Select ...
[ -a|--activate y|n|ay ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
LV1 types: mirror raid
—
Resynchronize or check a raid LV.
lvchange --syncaction check|repair VG|LV1|Tag|Select ...
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
LV1 types: raid
—
Reconstruct data on specific PVs of a raid LV.
lvchange --rebuild PV VG|LV1|Tag|Select ...
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
LV1 types: raid
—
Activate or deactivate an LV.
lvchange -a|--activate y|n|ay VG|LV|Tag|Select ...
[ -P|--partial ]
[ -K|--ignoreactivationskip ]
[ --activationmode partial|degraded|complete ]
[ --poll y|n ]
[ --monitor y|n ]
[ --ignorelockingfailure ]
[ --sysinit ]
[ --readonly ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
—
Reactivate an LV using the latest metadata.
lvchange --refresh VG|LV|Tag|Select ...
[ -P|--partial ]
[ --activationmode partial|degraded|complete ]
[ --poll y|n ]
[ --monitor y|n ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
—
Start or stop monitoring an LV from dmeventd.
lvchange --monitor y|n VG|LV|Tag|Select ...
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
—
Start or stop processing an LV conversion.
lvchange --poll y|n VG|LV|Tag|Select ...
[ --monitor y|n ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
—
Make the minor device number persistent for an LV.
lvchange -M|--persistent y --minor Number LV
[ -j|--major Number ]
[ -a|--activate y|n|ay ]
[ --poll y|n ]
[ --monitor y|n ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
—
Common options for command:
[ -A|--autobackup y|n ]
[ -f|--force ]
[ -S|--select String ]
[ --ignoremonitoring ]
[ --noudevsync ]
[ --reportformat basic|json ]
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
-a|--activate y|n|ay
Change the active state of LVs. An active LV can be used through a block device,
allowing data on the LV to be accessed. y makes LVs active, or available. n makes
LVs inactive, or unavailable. The block device for the LV is added or removed from
the system using device-mapper in the kernel. A symbolic link /dev/VGName/LVName
pointing to the device node is also added/removed. All software and scripts should
access the device through the symbolic link and present this as the name of the
device. The location and name of the underlying device node may depend on the
distribution, configuration (e.g. udev), or release version. ay specifies
autoactivation, which is used by system-generated activation commands. By default,
LVs are autoactivated. An autoactivation property can be set on a VG or LV to
disable autoactivation, see --setautoactivation y|n in vgchange, lvchange,
vgcreate, and lvcreate. Display the property with vgs or lvs "-o autoactivation".
The lvm.conf(5) auto_activation_volume_list includes names of VGs or LVs that
should be autoactivated, and anything not listed is not autoactivated. When
auto_activation_volume_list is undefined (the default), it has no effect. If
auto_activation_volume_list is defined and empty, no LVs are autoactivated. Items
included by auto_activation_volume_list will not be autoactivated if the
autoactivation property has been disabled. See lvmlockd(8) for more information
about activation options ey and sy for shared VGs.
--activationmode partial|degraded|complete
Determines if LV activation is allowed when PVs are missing, e.g. because of a
device failure. complete only allows LVs with no missing PVs to be activated, and
is the most restrictive mode. degraded allows RAID LVs with missing PVs to be
activated. (This does not include the "mirror" type, see "raid1" instead.)
partial allows any LV with missing PVs to be activated, and should only be used for
recovery or repair. For default, see lvm.conf(5) activation_mode. See lvmraid(7)
for more information.
--addtag Tag
Adds a tag to a PV, VG or LV. This option can be repeated to add multiple tags at
once. See lvm(8) for information about tags.
--alloc contiguous|cling|cling_by_tags|normal|anywhere|inherit
Determines the allocation policy when a command needs to allocate Physical Extents
(PEs) from the VG. Each VG and LV has an allocation policy which can be changed
with vgchange/lvchange, or overridden on the command line. normal applies common
sense rules such as not placing parallel stripes on the same PV. inherit applies
the VG policy to an LV. contiguous requires new PEs be placed adjacent to existing
PEs. cling places new PEs on the same PV as existing PEs in the same stripe of the
LV. If there are sufficient PEs for an allocation, but normal does not use them,
anywhere will use them even if it reduces performance, e.g. by placing two stripes
on the same PV. Optional positional PV args on the command line can also be used
to limit which PVs the command will use for allocation. See lvm(8) for more
information about allocation.
-A|--autobackup y|n
Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically after a change. Enabling
this is strongly advised! See vgcfgbackup(8) for more information.
--cachemode writethrough|writeback|passthrough
Specifies when writes to a cache LV should be considered complete. writeback
considers a write complete as soon as it is stored in the cache pool. writethough
considers a write complete only when it has been stored in both the cache pool and
on the origin LV. While writethrough may be slower for writes, it is more
resilient if something should happen to a device associated with the cache pool LV.
With passthrough, all reads are served from the origin LV (all reads miss the
cache) and all writes are forwarded to the origin LV; additionally, write hits
cause cache block invalidates. See lvmcache(7) for more information.
--cachepolicy String
Specifies the cache policy for a cache LV. See lvmcache(7) for more information.
--cachesettings String
Specifies tunable kernel options for dm-cache or dm-writecache LVs. Use the form
'option=value' or 'option1=value option2=value', or repeat --cachesettings for each
option being set. These settings override the default kernel behaviors which are
usually adequate. To remove cachesettings and revert to the default kernel
behaviors, use --cachesettings 'default' for dm-cache or an empty string
--cachesettings '' for dm-writecache. See lvmcache(7) for more information.
--commandprofile String
The command profile to use for command configuration. See lvm.conf(5) for more
information about profiles.
--compression y|n
Controls whether compression is enabled or disable for VDO volume. See lvmvdo(7)
for more information about VDO usage.
--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.
-C|--contiguous y|n
Sets or resets the contiguous allocation policy for LVs. Default is no contiguous
allocation based on a next free principle. It is only possible to change a non-
contiguous allocation policy to contiguous if all of the allocated physical extents
in the LV are already contiguous.
-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).
--deduplication y|n
Controls whether deduplication is enabled or disable for VDO volume. See lvmvdo(7)
for more information about VDO usage.
--deltag Tag
Deletes a tag from a PV, VG or LV. This option can be repeated to delete multiple
tags at once. See lvm(8) for information about tags.
--detachprofile
Detaches a metadata profile from a VG or LV. See lvm.conf(5) for more information
about profiles.
--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.
--discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore
Specifies how the device-mapper thin pool layer in the kernel should handle
discards. ignore causes the thin pool to ignore discards. nopassdown causes the
thin pool to process discards itself to allow reuse of unneeded extents in the thin
pool. passdown causes the thin pool to process discards itself (like nopassdown)
and pass the discards to the underlying device. See lvmthin(7) for more
information.
--driverloaded y|n
If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper. For testing and
debugging.
--errorwhenfull y|n
Specifies thin pool behavior when data space is exhausted. When yes, device-mapper
will immediately return an error when a thin pool is full and an I/O request
requires space. When no, device-mapper will queue these I/O requests for a period
of time to allow the thin pool to be extended. Errors are returned if no space is
available after the timeout. (Also see dm-thin-pool kernel module option
no_space_timeout.) See lvmthin(7) for more information.
-f|--force ...
Override various checks, confirmations and protections. Use with extreme caution.
-h|--help
Display help text.
-K|--ignoreactivationskip
Ignore the "activation skip" LV flag during activation to allow LVs with the flag
set to be activated.
--ignorelockingfailure
Allows a command to continue with read-only metadata operations after locking
failures.
--ignoremonitoring
Do not interact with dmeventd unless --monitor is specified. Do not use this if
dmeventd is already monitoring a device.
--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.
--longhelp
Display long help text.
-j|--major Number
Sets the major number of an LV block device.
--[raid]maxrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
Sets the maximum recovery rate for a RAID LV. The rate value is an amount of data
per second for each device in the array. Setting the rate to 0 means it will be
unbounded. See lvmraid(7) for more information.
--metadataprofile String
The metadata profile to use for command configuration. See lvm.conf(5) for more
information about profiles.
--minor Number
Sets the minor number of an LV block device.
--[raid]minrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
Sets the minimum recovery rate for a RAID LV. The rate value is an amount of data
per second for each device in the array. Setting the rate to 0 means it will be
unbounded. See lvmraid(7) for more information.
--monitor y|n
Start (yes) or stop (no) monitoring an LV with dmeventd. dmeventd monitors kernel
events for an LV, and performs automated maintenance for the LV in reponse to
specific events. See dmeventd(8) for more information.
--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.
--noudevsync
Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for notification from
udev. It will continue irrespective of any possible udev processing in the
background. Only use this if udev is not running or has rules that ignore the
devices LVM creates.
-P|--partial
Commands will do their best to activate LVs with missing PV extents. Missing
extents may be replaced with error or zero segments according to the
missing_stripe_filler setting. Metadata may not be changed with this option.
-p|--permission rw|r
Set access permission to read only r or read and write rw.
-M|--persistent y|n
When yes, makes the specified minor number persistent.
--poll y|n
When yes, start the background transformation of an LV. An incomplete
transformation, e.g. pvmove or lvconvert interrupted by reboot or crash, can be
restarted from the last checkpoint with --poll y. When no, background
transformation of an LV will not occur, and the transformation will not complete.
It may not be appropriate to immediately poll an LV after activation, in which case
--poll n can be used to defer polling until a later --poll y command.
--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'.
-r|--readahead auto|none|Number
Sets read ahead sector count of an LV. auto is the default which allows the kernel
to choose a suitable value automatically. none is equivalent to zero.
--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.
--rebuild PV
Selects a PV to rebuild in a raid LV. Multiple PVs can be rebuilt by repeating this
option. Use this option in place of --resync or --syncaction repair when the PVs
with corrupted data are known, and their data should be reconstructed rather than
reconstructing default (rotating) data. See lvmraid(7) for more information.
--refresh
If the LV is active, reload its metadata. This is not necessary in normal
operation, but may be useful if something has gone wrong, or if some form of manual
LV sharing is being used.
--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.
--resync
Initiates mirror synchronization. Synchronization generally happens automatically,
but this option forces it to run. Also see --rebuild to synchronize a specific PV.
During synchronization, data is read from the primary mirror device and copied to
the others. This can take considerable time, during which the LV is without a
complete redundant copy of the data. See lvmraid(7) for more information.
-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.
-k|--setactivationskip y|n
Persistently sets (yes) or clears (no) the "activation skip" flag on an LV. An LV
with this flag set is not activated unless the --ignoreactivationskip option is
used by the activation command. This flag is set by default on new thin snapshot
LVs. The flag is not applied to deactivation. The current value of the flag is
indicated in the lvs lv_attr bits.
--setautoactivation y|n
Set the autoactivation property on a VG or LV. Display the property with vgs or
lvs "-o autoactivation". When the autoactivation property is disabled, the VG or
LV will not be activated by a command doing autoactivation (vgchange, lvchange, or
pvscan using -aay.) If autoactivation is disabled on a VG, no LVs will be
autoactivated in that VG, and the LV autoactivation property has no effect. If
autoactivation is enabled on a VG, autoactivation can be disabled for individual
LVs.
--[raid]syncaction check|repair
Initiate different types of RAID synchronization. This causes the RAID LV to read
all data and parity blocks in the array and check for discrepancies (mismatches
between mirrors or incorrect parity values). check will count but not correct
discrepancies. repair will correct discrepancies. See lvs(8) for reporting
discrepancies found or repaired.
--sysinit
Indicates that vgchange/lvchange is being invoked from early system initialisation
scripts (e.g. rc.sysinit or an initrd), before writable filesystems are available.
As such, some functionality needs to be disabled and this option acts as a shortcut
which selects an appropriate set of options. Currently, this is equivalent to using
--ignorelockingfailure, --ignoremonitoring, --poll n, and setting env var
LVM_SUPPRESS_LOCKING_FAILURE_MESSAGES. vgchange/lvchange skip autoactivation, and
defer to pvscan autoactivation.
-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.
--vdosettings String
Specifies tunable VDO options for VDO LVs. Use the form 'option=value' or
'option1=value option2=value', or repeat --vdosettings for each option being set.
These settings override the default VDO behaviors. To remove vdosettings and
revert to the default VDO behaviors, use --vdosettings 'default'. See lvmvdo(7)
for more information.
-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.
--[raid]writebehind Number
The maximum number of outstanding writes that are allowed to devices in a RAID1 LV
that is marked write-mostly. Once this value is exceeded, writes become
synchronous (i.e. all writes to the constituent devices must complete before the
array signals the write has completed). Setting the value to zero clears the
preference and allows the system to choose the value arbitrarily.
--[raid]writemostly PV[:t|n|y]
Mark a device in a RAID1 LV as write-mostly. All reads to these drives will be
avoided unless absolutely necessary. This keeps the number of I/Os to the drive to
a minimum. The default behavior is to set the write-mostly attribute for the
specified PV. It is also possible to remove the write-mostly flag by adding the
suffix :n at the end of the PV name, or to toggle the value with the suffix :t.
Repeat this option to change the attribute on multiple PVs.
-y|--yes
Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the answer yes. Use
with extreme caution. (For automatic no, see -qq.)
-Z|--zero y|n
Set zeroing mode for thin pool. Note: already provisioned blocks from pool in non-
zero mode are not cleared in unwritten parts when setting --zero y.
VARIABLES
VG Volume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.
LV Logical Volume name. See lvm(8) for valid names. An LV positional arg generally
includes the VG name and LV name, e.g. VG/LV. LV1 indicates the LV must have a
specific type, where the accepted LV types are listed. (raid represents raid<N>
type).
Tag Tag name. See lvm(8) for information about tag names and using tags in place of a
VG, LV or PV.
Select Select indicates that a required positional parameter can be omitted if the
--select option is used. No arg appears in this position.
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.
EXAMPLES
Change LV permission to read-only:
lvchange -pr vg00/lvol1
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)