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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|--allpvs ]
           [ -a|--all ]
           [ -o|--options String ]
           [ -S|--select String ]
           [ -O|--sort String ]
           [    --segments ]
           [    --aligned ]
           [    --binary ]
           [    --configreport log|vg|lv|pv|pvseg|seg ]
           [    --foreign ]
           [    --headings none|abbrev|full|0|1|2 ]
           [    --ignorelockingfailure ]
           [    --logonly ]
           [    --nameprefixes ]
           [    --noheadings ]
           [    --nosuffix ]
           [    --readonly ]
           [    --reportformat basic|json|json_std ]
           [    --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.

       -A|--allpvs
              Show  information  about  PVs  outside the devices file.  Combine with -a|--all to include devices
              that 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.

       --headings none|abbrev|full|0|1|2
              Type  of  headings  to  use  in  report output.  none or 0: No headings.  abbrev or 1: Column name
              abbreviations.  full or 2: Full column names.

       -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
              Prevent  the  command  from  making  changes,  including  activation  and  metadata updates.  (See
              --permission r for read only LVs.)

       --reportformat basic|json|json_std
              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. json_std produces report output in JSON format which is
              more compliant with JSON standard.  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), lvmcache(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmvdo(7), lvmautoactivation(7)