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NAME

       pvs — report information about physical volumes

SYNOPSIS

       pvs   [-a|--all]   [--aligned]  [--binary]  [--commandprofile  ProfileName]  [-d|--debug]  [-h|-?|--help]
       [--ignorelockingfailure]   [--ignoreskippedcluster]    [--nameprefixes]    [--noheadings]    [--nosuffix]
       [-o|--options  [+|-|#]Field[,Field...]]   [-O|--sort  [+|-]Key1[,[+|-]Key2...]]   [-P|--partial] [--rows]
       [--segments] [-S|--select Selection] [--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.

       --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).

       --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 current list of columns, '-' to remove from the current
              list  of columns or '#' to compact given columns. The -o option can be repeated, providing several
              lists. These lists are evaluated from left to right.

              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, pv_ba_start,
              pv_ba_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.

       -S, --select Selection
              Display only rows that match Selection criteria.  All  rows  are  displayed  with  the  additional
              "selected"  column  (-o  selected) showing 1 if the row matches the Selection and 0 otherwise. The
              Selection criteria are defined by specifying column names and their valid values (that can include
              reserved  values)  while making use of supported comparison operators. See lvm(8) and -S, --select
              description for more detailed information about constructing the Selection criteria.  As  a  quick
              help  and  to  see  full  list of column names that can be used in Selection including the list of
              reserved values and the set of supported selection operators, check the  output  of  pvs  -S  help
              command.

       -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)