virt-filesystems(1)
NAME
virt-filesystems - List filesystems, partitions, block devices, LVM in a virtual machine or disk image
SYNOPSIS
virt-filesystems [--options] -d domname
virt-filesystems [--options] -a disk.img [-a disk.img ...]
DESCRIPTION
This tool allows you to discover filesystems, partitions, logical volumes, and their sizes in a disk image or virtual machine. It is a replacement for virt-list-filesystems(1) and virt-list-partitions(1). One use for this tool is from shell scripts to iterate over all filesystems from a disk image: for fs in $(virt-filesystems -a disk.img); do # ... done Another use is to list partitions before using another tool to modify those partitions (such as virt-resize(1)). If you are curious about what an unknown disk image contains, use this tool along with virt-inspector(1). Various command line options control what this program displays. You need to give either -a or -d options to specify the disk image or libvirt guest respectively. If you just specify that then the program shows filesystems found, one per line, like this: $ virt-filesystems -a disk.img /dev/sda1 /dev/vg_guest/lv_root If you add -l or --long then the output includes extra information: $ virt-filesystems -a disk.img -l Name Type VFS Label Size /dev/sda1 filesystem ext4 boot 524288000 /dev/vg_guest/lv_root filesystem ext4 root 10212081664 If you add --extra then non-mountable (swap, unknown) filesystems are shown as well: $ virt-filesystems -a disk.img --extra /dev/sda1 /dev/vg_guest/lv_root /dev/vg_guest/lv_swap /dev/vg_guest/lv_data If you add --partitions then partitions are shown instead of filesystems: $ virt-filesystems -a disk.img --partitions /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 Similarly you can use --logical-volumes, --volume-groups, --physical-volumes, --block-devices to list those items. You can use these options in combination as well (if you want a combination including filesystems, you have to add --filesystems). Notice that some items fall into several categories (eg. /dev/sda1 might be both a partition and a filesystem). These items are listed several times. To get a list which includes absolutely everything that virt-filesystems knows about, use the --all option. UUIDs (because they are quite long) are not shown by default. Add the --uuid option to display device and filesystem UUIDs in the long output. --all --long --uuid is a useful combination to display all possible information about everything. $ virt-filesystems -a win.img --all --long --uuid -h Name Type VFS Label Size Parent UUID /dev/sda1 filesystem ntfs System Reserved 100M - F81C92571C92112C /dev/sda2 filesystem ntfs - 20G - F2E8996AE8992E3B /dev/sda1 partition - - 100M /dev/sda - /dev/sda2 partition - - 20G /dev/sda - /dev/sda device - - 20G - - For machine-readable output, use --csv to get Comma-Separated Values.
OPTIONS
--help
Display brief help.
-a file
--add file
Add file which should be a disk image from a virtual machine. If
the virtual machine has multiple block devices, you must supply all
of them with separate -a options.
The format of the disk image is auto-detected. To override this
and force a particular format use the --format=.. option.
-a URI
--add URI
Add a remote disk. See "ADDING REMOTE STORAGE" in guestfish(1).
--all
Display everything. This is currently the same as specifying these
options: --filesystems, --extra, --partitions, --block-devices,
--logical-volumes, --volume-groups, --physical-volumes. (More may
be added to this list in future).
See also --long.
--blkdevs
--block-devices
Display block devices.
-c URI
--connect URI
If using libvirt, connect to the given URI. If omitted, then we
connect to the default libvirt hypervisor.
If you specify guest block devices directly (-a), then libvirt is
not used at all.
--csv
Write out the results in CSV format (comma-separated values). This
format can be imported easily into databases and spreadsheets, but
read "NOTE ABOUT CSV FORMAT" below.
-d guest
--domain guest
Add all the disks from the named libvirt guest. Domain UUIDs can
be used instead of names.
--echo-keys
When prompting for keys and passphrases, virt-filesystems normally
turns echoing off so you cannot see what you are typing. If you
are not worried about Tempest attacks and there is no one else in
the room you can specify this flag to see what you are typing.
--extra
This causes filesystems that are not ordinary, mountable
filesystems to be displayed. This category includes swapspace, and
filesystems that are empty or contain unknown data.
This option implies --filesystems.
--filesystems
Display mountable filesystems. If no display option was selected
then this option is implied.
With --extra, non-mountable filesystems are shown too.
--format=raw|qcow2|..
--format
The default for the -a option is to auto-detect the format of the
disk image. Using this forces the disk format for -a options which
follow on the command line. Using --format with no argument
switches back to auto-detection for subsequent -a options.
For example:
virt-filesystems --format=raw -a disk.img
forces raw format (no auto-detection) for disk.img.
virt-filesystems --format=raw -a disk.img --format -a another.img
forces raw format (no auto-detection) for disk.img and reverts to
auto-detection for another.img.
If you have untrusted raw-format guest disk images, you should use
this option to specify the disk format. This avoids a possible
security problem with malicious guests (CVE-2010-3851).
-h
--human-readable
In --long mode, display sizes in human-readable format.
--keys-from-stdin
Read key or passphrase parameters from stdin. The default is to
try to read passphrases from the user by opening /dev/tty.
-l
--long
Display extra columns of data ("long format").
A title row is added unless you also specify --no-title.
The extra columns displayed depend on what output you select, and
the ordering of columns may change in future versions. Use the
title row, --csv output and/or csvtool(1) to match columns to data
in external programs.
Use -h if you want sizes to be displayed in human-readable format.
The default is to show raw numbers of bytes.
Use --uuid to display UUIDs too.
--lvs
--logvols
--logical-volumes
Display LVM logical volumes. In this mode, these are displayed
irrespective of whether the LVs contain filesystems.
--no-title
In --long mode, don't add a title row.
Note that the order of the columns is not fixed, and may change in
future versions of virt-filesystems, so using this option may give
you unexpected surprises.
--parts
--partitions
Display partitions. In this mode, these are displayed irrespective
of whether the partitions contain filesystems.
--pvs
--physvols
--physical-volumes
Display LVM physical volumes.
--uuid
--uuids
In --long mode, display UUIDs as well.
-v
--verbose
Enable verbose messages for debugging.
-V
--version
Display version number and exit.
--vgs
--volgroups
--volume-groups
Display LVM volume groups.
-x Enable tracing of libguestfs API calls.
COLUMNS
Note that columns in the output are subject to reordering and change in
future versions of this tool.
Name
The filesystem, partition, block device or LVM name.
For device and partition names these are displayed as canonical
libguestfs names, so that for example /dev/sda2 is the second
partition on the first device.
If the --long option is not specified, then only the name column is
shown in the output.
Type
The object type, for example "filesystem", "lv", "device" etc.
VFS If there is a filesystem, then this column displays the filesystem
type if one could be detected, eg. "ext4".
Label
If the object has a label (used for identifying and mounting
filesystems) then this column contains the label.
MBR The partition type byte, displayed as a two digit hexadecimal
number. A comprehensive list of partition types can be found here:
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
This is only applicable for DOS (MBR) partitions.
Size
The size of the object in bytes. If the --human option is used
then the size is displayed in a human-readable form.
Parent
The parent column records the parent relationship between objects.
For example, if the object is a partition, then this column
contains the name of the containing device. If the object is a
logical volume, then this column is the name of the volume group.
If there is more than one parent, then this column is (internal to
the column) a comma-separated list, eg. "/dev/sda,/dev/sdb".
UUID
If the object has a UUID (used for identifying and mounting
filesystems and block devices) then this column contains the UUID
as a string.
The UUID is only displayed if the --uuid option is given.
NOTE ABOUT CSV FORMAT
Comma-separated values (CSV) is a deceptive format. It seems like it
should be easy to parse, but it is definitely not easy to parse.
Myth: Just split fields at commas. Reality: This does not work
reliably. This example has two columns:
"foo,bar",baz
Myth: Read the file one line at a time. Reality: This does not work
reliably. This example has one row:
"foo
bar",baz
For shell scripts, use "csvtool" (https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-csv
also packaged in major Linux distributions).
For other languages, use a CSV processing library (eg. "Text::CSV" for
Perl or Python's built-in csv library).
Most spreadsheets and databases can import CSV directly.
EXIT STATUS
This program returns 0 if successful, or non-zero if there was an error.
SEE ALSO
guestfs(3), guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-df(1), virt-list-filesystems(1), virt-list-partitions(1), csvtool(1), http://libguestfs.org/.
AUTHOR
Richard W.M. Jones http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Red Hat Inc.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
BUGS
To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
When reporting a bug, please supply:
* The version of libguestfs.
* Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from
source, etc)
* Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
* Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output
into the bug report.
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