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6 lvs - report information about logical volumes
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9 lvs [-a|--all] [--aligned] [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--ignorelock‐
10 ingfailure] [--nameprefixes] [--noheadings] [--nosuffix] [-o|--options
11 [+]Field[,Field]] [-O|--sort [+|-]Key1[,[+|-]Key2[,...]]] [-P|--par‐
12 tial] [--rows] [--segments] [--separator Separator] [--unbuffered]
13 [--units hHbBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE] [--unquoted] [-v|--verbose] [--version]
14 [VolumeGroupName [VolumeGroupName...]]
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17 lvs produces formatted output about logical volumes.
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20 See lvm for common options.
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22 --all Include information in the output about internal Logical Volumes
23 that are components of normally-accessible Logical Volumes, such
24 as mirrors, but which are not independently accessible (e.g. not
25 mountable). The names of such Logical Volumes are enclosed
26 within square brackets in the output. For example, after creat‐
27 ing a mirror using 'lvcreate -m1 --mirrorlog disk', this option
28 will reveal three internal Logical Volumes, with suffixes mim‐
29 age_0, mimage_1, and mlog.
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31 --aligned
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35 Add an "LVM2_" prefix plus the field name to the output. Useful
36 with --noheadings to produce a list of field=value pairs that
37 can be used to set environment variables (for example, in udev
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40 --noheadings
41 Suppress the headings line that is normally the first line of
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44 --nosuffix
45 Suppress the suffix on output sizes. Use with --units (except h
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48 -o, --options
49 Comma-separated ordered list of columns. Precede the list with
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53 Use -o lv_all to select all logical volume columns, and -o
54 seg_all to select all logical volume segment columns.
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58 Column names include: lv_uuid, lv_name, lv_path, lv_attr,
59 lv_major, lv_minor, lv_read_ahead, lv_kernel_major, lv_ker‐
60 nel_minor, lv_kernel_read_ahead, lv_size, seg_count, origin,
61 origin_size, snap_percent, copy_percent, move_pv, convert_lv,
62 lv_tags, mirror_log, modules, segtype, stripes, stripesize,
63 regionsize, chunksize, seg_start, seg_start_pe, seg_size,
64 seg_tags, seg_pe_ranges, devices.
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66 With --segments, any "seg_" prefixes are optional; otherwise any
67 "lv_" prefixes are optional. Columns mentioned in vgs (8) can
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70 The lv_attr bits are:
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72 1 Volume type: (m)irrored, (M)irrored without initial sync,
73 (o)rigin, (O)rigin with merging snapshot, (s)napshot, merging
74 (S)napshot, (p)vmove, (v)irtual, mirror (i)mage, mirror
75 (I)mage out-of-sync, under (c)onversion
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77 2 Permissions: (w)riteable, (r)ead-only
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79 3 Allocation policy: (c)ontiguous, c(l)ing, (n)ormal,
80 (a)nywhere, (i)nherited This is capitalised if the volume is
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86 5 State: (a)ctive, (s)uspended, (I)nvalid snapshot, invalid
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92 --segments
93 Use default columns that emphasize segment information.
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95 -O, --sort
96 Comma-separated ordered list of columns to sort by. Replaces
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100 --rows Output columns as rows.
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102 --separator Separator
103 String to use to separate each column. Useful if grepping the
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110 --units hHbBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE
111 All sizes are output in these units: (h)uman-readable, (b)ytes,
112 (s)ectors, (k)ilobytes, (m)egabytes, (g)igabytes, (t)erabytes,
113 (p)etabytes, (e)xabytes. Capitalise to use multiples of 1000
114 (S.I.) instead of 1024. Can also specify custom units e.g.
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