pvs(8)
NAME
pvs --- report information about physical volumes
SYNOPSIS
pvs [-a|--all] [--aligned] [--binary] [--commandprofile ProfileName]
[[--configreport ReportName] [-o|--options [+|-|#]Field1[,Field2...]
[-O|--sort [+|-]Key1[,Key2...]] [-S|--select Selection] ...]
[-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure]
[--ignoreskippedcluster] [--logonly] [--nameprefixes] [--noheadings]
[--nosuffix] [-P|--partial] [--reportformat {basic|json}] [--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. --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). --configreport ReportName Make any subsequent -o, --options, -O, --sort or -S, --select to apply for ReportName where ReportName is either 'pv' for command's main report or 'log' for log report. If --configreport option is not used to identify a report, then command's main report is assumed. The log report is available only if enabled by log/report_command_log lvm.conf(5) setting or if --logonly option is used. --logonly Suppress the pvs report itself and display only log report on output. --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, (m)issing, (u)sed (but not allocatable), (d)uplicate. --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)
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