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6 vgs — report information about volume groups
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9 vgs [-a|--all] [--aligned] [--binary] [--commandprofile ProfileName]
10 [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure] [--ignoreskipped‐
11 cluster] [--nameprefixes] [--noheadings] [--nosuffix] [-o|--options
12 [+|-|#]Field1[,Field2...]] [-O|--sort [+|-]Key1[,[+|-]Key2...]]
13 [-P|--partial] [--rows] [-S|--select Selection] [--separator Separator]
14 [--unbuffered] [--units hHbBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE] [--unquoted] [-v|--verbose]
15 [--version] [VolumeGroupName [VolumeGroupName...]]
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18 vgs produces formatted output about volume groups.
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21 See lvm(8) for common options.
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23 --all List all volume groups. Equivalent to not specifying any volume
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26 --aligned
27 Use with --separator to align the output columns.
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30 Use binary values "0" or "1" instead of descriptive literal val‐
31 ues for columns that have exactly two valid values to report
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35 --nameprefixes
36 Add an "LVM2_" prefix plus the field name to the output. Useful
37 with --noheadings to produce a list of field=value pairs that
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41 --noheadings
42 Suppress the headings line that is normally the first line of
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45 --nosuffix
46 Suppress the suffix on output sizes. Use with --units (except h
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49 -o, --options
50 Comma-separated ordered list of columns.
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52 Precede the list with '+' to append to the current list of col‐
53 umns, '-' to remove from the current list of columns or '#' to
54 compact given columns. The -o option can be repeated, providing
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57 Use -o vg_all to select all volume group columns.
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59 Use -o help to view the full list of columns available.
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61 Column names include: vg_fmt, vg_uuid, vg_name, vg_attr,
62 vg_size, vg_free, vg_sysid, vg_extent_size, vg_extent_count,
63 vg_free_count, vg_profile, max_lv, max_pv, pv_count, lv_count,
64 snap_count, vg_seqno, vg_tags, vg_mda_count, vg_mda_free, and
65 vg_mda_size, vg_mda_used_count.
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67 Any "vg_" prefixes are optional. Columns mentioned in either
68 pvs(8) or lvs(8) can also be chosen, but columns cannot be taken
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71 The vg_attr bits are:
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73 1 Permissions: (w)riteable, (r)ead-only
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82 5 Allocation policy: (c)ontiguous, c(l)ing, (n)ormal,
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87 -O, --sort
88 Comma-separated ordered list of columns to sort by. Replaces
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92 --rows Output columns as rows.
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94 -S, --select Selection
95 Display only rows that match Selection criteria. All rows are
96 displayed with the additional "selected" column (-o selected)
97 showing 1 if the row matches the Selection and 0 otherwise. The
98 Selection criteria are defined by specifying column names and
99 their valid values (that can include reserved values) while mak‐
100 ing use of supported comparison operators. See lvm(8) and -S,
101 --select description for more detailed information about con‐
102 structing the Selection criteria. As a quick help and to see
103 full list of column names that can be used in Selection includ‐
104 ing the list of reserved values and the set of supported selec‐
105 tion operators, check the output of vgs -S help command.
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107 --separator Separator
108 String to use to separate each column. Useful if grepping the
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111 --unbuffered
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115 --units hHbBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE
116 All sizes are output in these units: (h)uman-readable, (b)ytes,
117 (s)ectors, (k)ilobytes, (m)egabytes, (g)igabytes, (t)erabytes,
118 (p)etabytes, (e)xabytes. Capitalise to use multiples of 1000
119 (S.I.) instead of 1024. Can also specify custom units e.g.
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122 --unquoted
123 When used with --nameprefixes, output values in the field=value
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127 lvm(8), vgdisplay(8), pvs(8), lvs(8)
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