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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)