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NAME
pvchange — Change attributes of physical volume(s)
SYNOPSIS
pvchange option_args position_args
[ option_args ]
DESCRIPTION
pvchange changes PV attributes in the VG.
For options listed in parentheses, any one is required, after which the others are optional.
USAGE
Change properties of all PVs.
pvchange -a|--all
( -x|--allocatable y|n
-u|--uuid
--addtag Tag
--deltag Tag
--metadataignore y|n )
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
Change properties of specified PVs.
pvchange
( -x|--allocatable y|n
-u|--uuid
--addtag Tag
--deltag Tag
--metadataignore y|n )
PV|Select ...
[ -S|--select String ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
Common options for command:
[ -A|--autobackup y|n ]
[ -f|--force ]
[ -u|--uuid ]
[ --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
--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.
-a|--all
Change all visible PVs.
-x|--allocatable y|n
Enable or disable allocation of physical extents on this PV.
-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.
--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.
-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).
--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.
--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.
-f|--force ...
Override various checks, confirmations and protections. Use with extreme caution.
-h|--help
Display help text.
--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.
--metadataignore y|n
Specifies the metadataignore property of a PV. If yes, metadata areas on the PV are ignored, and
lvm will not store metadata in the metadata areas of the PV. If no, lvm will store metadata on
the PV.
--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.
--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'.
--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.
-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.
-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.
-u|--uuid
Generate new random UUID for specified PVs.
-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]...
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
Disallow the allocation of physical extents on a PV (e.g. because of disk errors, or because it will be
removed after freeing it).
pvchange -x n /dev/sdk1
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)