PVS(8)							      System Manager's Manual							    PVS(8)

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 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 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, 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 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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