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NAME
pvdisplay — Display various attributes of physical volume(s)
SYNOPSIS
pvdisplay
[ option_args ]
[ position_args ]
DESCRIPTION
pvdisplay shows the attributes of PVs, like size, physical extent size, space used for the VG descriptor
area, etc.
pvs(8) is a preferred alternative that shows the same information and more, using a more compact and
configurable output format.
USAGE
pvdisplay
[ -a|--all ]
[ -c|--colon ]
[ -C|--columns ]
[ -m|--maps ]
[ -o|--options String ]
[ -S|--select String ]
[ -s|--short ]
[ -O|--sort String ]
[ --aligned ]
[ --binary ]
[ --configreport log|vg|lv|pv|pvseg|seg ]
[ --foreign ]
[ --ignorelockingfailure ]
[ --logonly ]
[ --noheadings ]
[ --nosuffix ]
[ --readonly ]
[ --separator String ]
[ --shared ]
[ --unbuffered ]
[ --units [Number]r|R|h|H|b|B|s|S|k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T|p|P|e|E ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
[ PV|Tag ... ]
Common options for lvm:
[ -d|--debug ]
[ -h|--help ]
[ -q|--quiet ]
[ -t|--test ]
[ -v|--verbose ]
[ -y|--yes ]
[ --commandprofile String ]
[ --config String ]
[ --devices PV ]
[ --devicesfile String ]
[ --driverloaded y|n ]
[ --journal String ]
[ --lockopt String ]
[ --longhelp ]
[ --nohints ]
[ --nolocking ]
[ --profile String ]
[ --version ]
OPTIONS
--aligned
Use with --separator to align the output columns
-a|--all
Show information about devices that have not been initialized by LVM, i.e. they are not PVs.
--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).
-c|--colon
Generate colon separated output for easier parsing in scripts or programs. Also see vgs(8) which
provides considerably more control over the output.
-C|--columns
Display output in columns, the equivalent of vgs(8). Options listed are the same as options given
in vgs(8).
--commandprofile String
The command profile to use for command configuration. See lvm.conf(5) for more information about
profiles.
--config String
Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf(5) settings. The String arg uses the
same format as lvm.conf(5), or may use section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more information
about config.
--configreport log|vg|lv|pv|pvseg|seg
See lvmreport(7).
-d|--debug ...
Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail of messages sent to the log file
and/or syslog (if configured).
--devices PV
Restricts the devices that are visible and accessible to the command. Devices not listed will ap‐
pear to be missing. This option can be repeated, or accepts a comma separated list of devices.
This overrides the devices file.
--devicesfile String
A file listing devices that LVM should use. The file must exist in /etc/lvm/devices/ and is man‐
aged with the lvmdevices(8) command. This overrides the lvm.conf(5) devices/devicesfile and de‐
vices/use_devicesfile settings.
--driverloaded y|n
If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper. For testing and debugging.
--foreign
Report/display foreign VGs that would otherwise be skipped. See lvmsystemid(7) for more informa‐
tion about foreign VGs.
-h|--help
Display help text.
--ignorelockingfailure
Allows a command to continue with read-only metadata operations after locking failures.
--journal String
Record information in the systemd journal. This information is in addition to information enabled
by the lvm.conf log/journal setting. command: record information about the command. output:
record the default command output. debug: record full command debugging.
--lockopt String
Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See lvmlockd(8) for more information.
--logonly
Suppress command report and display only log report.
--longhelp
Display long help text.
-m|--maps
Display the mapping of physical extents to LVs and logical extents.
--noheadings
Suppress the headings line that is normally the first line of output. Useful if grepping the out‐
put.
--nohints
Do not use the hints file to locate devices for PVs. A command may read more devices to find PVs
when hints are not used. The command will still perform standard hint file invalidation where ap‐
propriate.
--nolocking
Disable locking. Use with caution, concurrent commands may produce incorrect results.
--nosuffix
Suppress the suffix on output sizes. Use with --units (except h and H) if processing the output.
-o|--options String
Comma-separated, ordered list of fields to display in columns. String arg syntax is:
[+|-|#]Field1[,Field2 ...] The prefix + will append the specified fields to the default fields, -
will remove the specified fields from the default fields, and # will compact specified fields (re‐
moving them when empty for all rows.) Use -o help to view the list of all available fields. Use
separate lists of fields to add, remove or compact by repeating the -o option: -o+field1,field2
-o-field3,field4 -o#field5. These lists are evaluated from left to right. Use field name lv_all
to view all LV fields, vg_all all VG fields, pv_all all PV fields, pvseg_all all PV segment
fields, seg_all all LV segment fields, and pvseg_all all PV segment columns. See the lvm.conf(5)
report section for more config options. See lvmreport(7) for more information about reporting.
--profile String
An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on the command.
-q|--quiet ...
Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose. Repeat once to also suppress
any prompts with answer 'no'.
--readonly
Run the command in a special read-only mode which will read on-disk metadata without needing to
take any locks. This can be used to peek inside metadata used by a virtual machine image while the
virtual machine is running. No attempt will be made to communicate with the device-mapper kernel
driver, so this option is unable to report whether or not LVs are actually in use.
-S|--select String
Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified criteria. The criteria syntax is
described by --select help and lvmreport(7). For reporting commands, one row is displayed for
each object matching the criteria. See --options help for selectable object fields. Rows can be
displayed with an additional "selected" field (-o selected) showing 1 if the row matches the se‐
lection and 0 otherwise. For non-reporting commands which process LVM entities, the selection is
used to choose items to process.
--separator String
String to use to separate each column. Useful if grepping the output.
--shared
Report/display shared VGs that would otherwise be skipped when lvmlockd is not being used on the
host. See lvmlockd(8) for more information about shared VGs.
-s|--short
Only display the size of the given PVs.
-O|--sort String
Comma-separated ordered list of columns to sort by. Replaces the default selection. Precede any
column with - for a reverse sort on that column.
-t|--test
Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is implemented by disabling all metada‐
ta writing but nevertheless returning success to the calling function. This may lead to unusual
error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool relies on reading back metadata it believes has
changed but hasn't.
--unbuffered
Produce output immediately without sorting or aligning the columns properly.
--units [Number]r|R|h|H|b|B|s|S|k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T|p|P|e|E
All sizes are output in these units: human-(r)eadable with '<' rounding indicator, (h)uman-read‐
able, (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. Custom units can be
specified, e.g. --units 3M.
-v|--verbose ...
Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the detail of messages sent to stdout and
stderr.
--version
Display version information.
-y|--yes
Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the answer yes. Use with extreme
caution. (For automatic no, see -qq.)
VARIABLES
PV Physical Volume name, a device path under /dev. For commands managing physical extents, a PV po‐
sitional arg generally accepts a suffix indicating a range (or multiple ranges) of physical ex‐
tents (PEs). When the first PE is omitted, it defaults to the start of the device, and when the
last PE is omitted it defaults to end. Start and end range (inclusive): PV[:PE-PE]... Start and
length range (counting from 0): PV[:PE+PE]...
Tag Tag name. See lvm(8) for information about tag names and using tags in place of a VG, LV or PV.
String See the option description for information about the string content.
Size[UNIT]
Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input units are always treated as base two
values, regardless of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default input unit
is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT represents other possible input units: b|B is
bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB, p|P is PiB,
e|E is EiB. (This should not be confused with the output control --units, where capital letters
mean multiple of 1000.)
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm. For example, LVM_VG_NAME can gener‐
ally be substituted for a required VG parameter.
SEE ALSO
lvm(8), lvm.conf(5), lvmconfig(8), lvmdevices(8),
pvchange(8), pvck(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), pvmove(8), pvremove(8), pvresize(8), pvs(8), pvscan(8),
vgcfgbackup(8), vgcfgrestore(8), vgchange(8), vgck(8), vgcreate(8), vgconvert(8), vgdisplay(8),
vgexport(8), vgextend(8), vgimport(8), vgimportclone(8), vgimportdevices(8), vgmerge(8), vgmknodes(8),
vgreduce(8), vgremove(8), vgrename(8), vgs(8), vgscan(8), vgsplit(8),
lvcreate(8), lvchange(8), lvconvert(8), lvdisplay(8), lvextend(8), lvreduce(8), lvremove(8), lvrename(8),
lvresize(8), lvs(8), lvscan(8),
lvm-fullreport(8), lvm-lvpoll(8), blkdeactivate(8), lvmdump(8),
dmeventd(8), lvmpolld(8), lvmlockd(8), lvmlockctl(8), cmirrord(8), lvmdbusd(8), fsadm(8),
lvmsystemid(7), lvmreport(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmcache(7)
Red Hat, Inc. LVM TOOLS 2.03.16(2) (2022-05-18) PVDISPLAY(8)