PVS(8)                                                                                                                    PVS(8)



NAME
       pvs - report information about physical volumes

SYNOPSIS
       pvs [-a|--all] [--aligned] [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure] [--nameprefixes] [--noheadings] [--nosuf-
       fix]  [-o|--options  [+]Field[,Field]]  [-O|--sort  [+|-]Key1[,[+|-]Key2[,...]]]   [-P|--partial]  [--rows]  [--segments]
       [--separator Separator] [--unbuffered] [--units hHbBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE] [--unquoted] [-v|--verbose] [--version] [PhysicalVol-
       ume [PhysicalVolume...]]

DESCRIPTION
       pvs produces formatted output about physical volumes.

OPTIONS
       See lvm for common options.  --columns.

       --all  Include information in the output about devices that have not been initialized with pvcreate.

       --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 col-
              umns.

              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 and e(x)ported.

       --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 spec-
              ify 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)



Sistina Software UK                             LVM TOOLS 2.02.84(2) (2011-02-09)                                         PVS(8)