1VGDISPLAY(8) System Manager's Manual VGDISPLAY(8)
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6 vgdisplay - Display volume group information
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9 vgdisplay
10 [ option_args ]
11 [ position_args ]
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14 vgdisplay shows the attributes of VGs, and the associated PVs and LVs.
15 vgs(8) is a preferred alternative that shows the same information and
17 more, using a more compact and configurable output format.
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20 vgdisplay
21 [ -A|--activevolumegroups ]
22 [ -c|--colon ]
23 [ -C|--columns ]
24 [ -o|--options String ]
25 [ -S|--select String ]
26 [ -s|--short ]
27 [ -O|--sort String ]
28 [ --aligned ]
29 [ --binary ]
30 [ --configreport log|vg|lv|pv|pvseg|seg ]
31 [ --foreign ]
32 [ --ignorelockingfailure ]
33 [ --ignoreskippedcluster ]
34 [ --logonly ]
35 [ --noheadings ]
36 [ --nosuffix ]
37 [ --readonly ]
38 [ --reportformat basic|json ]
39 [ --shared ]
40 [ --separator String ]
41 [ --unbuffered ]
42 [ --units r|R|h|H|b|B|s|S|k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T|p|P|e|E ]
43 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
44 [ VG|Tag ... ]
45 Common options for lvm:
47 [ -d|--debug ]
48 [ -h|--help ]
49 [ -q|--quiet ]
50 [ -t|--test ]
51 [ -v|--verbose ]
52 [ -y|--yes ]
53 [ --commandprofile String ]
54 [ --config String ]
55 [ --driverloaded y|n ]
56 [ --lockopt String ]
57 [ --longhelp ]
58 [ --profile String ]
59 [ --version ]
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62 -A|--activevolumegroups
63 Only select active VGs. The VG is considered active if at least
64 one of its LVs is active.
65 --aligned
67 Use with --separator to align the output columns
68 --binary
70 Use binary values "0" or "1" instead of descriptive literal val‐
71 ues for columns that have exactly two valid values to report
72 (not counting the "unknown" value which denotes that the value
73 could not be determined).
74 -c|--colon
76 Generate colon separated output for easier parsing in scripts or
77 programs. Also see vgs(8) which provides considerably more con‐
78 trol over the output.
79 -C|--columns
81 Display output in columns, the equivalent of vgs(8). Options
82 listed are the same as options given in vgs(8).
83 --commandprofile String
85 The command profile to use for command configuration. See
86 lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles.
87 --config String
89 Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf set‐
90 tings. The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf, or may
91 use section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more information
92 about config.
93 --configreport log|vg|lv|pv|pvseg|seg
95 See lvmreport(7).
96 -d|--debug ...
98 Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail
99 of messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if configured).
100 --driverloaded y|n
102 If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper.
103 For testing and debugging.
104 --foreign
106 Report/display foreign VGs that would otherwise be skipped. See
107 lvmsystemid(7) for more information about foreign VGs.
108 -h|--help
110 Display help text.
111 --ignorelockingfailure
113 Allows a command to continue with read-only metadata operations
114 after locking failures.
115 --ignoreskippedcluster
117 Use to avoid exiting with an non-zero status code if the command
118 is run without clustered locking and clustered VGs are skipped.
119 --lockopt String
121 Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See lvm‐
122 lockd(8) for more information.
123 --logonly
125 Suppress command report and display only log report.
126 --longhelp
128 Display long help text.
129 --noheadings
131 Suppress the headings line that is normally the first line of
132 output. Useful if grepping the output.
133 --nosuffix
135 Suppress the suffix on output sizes. Use with --units (except h
136 and H) if processing the output.
137 -o|--options String
139 Comma-separated, ordered list of fields to display in columns.
140 String arg syntax is: [+|-|#]Field1[,Field2 ...] The prefix +
141 will append the specified fields to the default fields, - will
142 remove the specified fields from the default fields, and # will
143 compact specified fields (removing them when empty for all
144 rows.) Use -o help to view the list of all available fields.
145 Use separate lists of fields to add, remove or compact by
146 repeating the -o option: -o+field1,field2 -o-field3,field4
147 -o#field5. These lists are evaluated from left to right. Use
148 field name lv_all to view all LV fields, vg_all all VG fields,
149 pv_all all PV fields, pvseg_all all PV segment fields, seg_all
150 all LV segment fields, and pvseg_all all PV segment columns.
151 See the lvm.conf report section for more config options. See
152 lvmreport(7) for more information about reporting.
153 --profile String
155 An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on
156 the command.
157 -q|--quiet ...
159 Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --ver‐
160 bose. Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with answer
161 'no'.
162 --readonly
164 Run the command in a special read-only mode which will read on-
165 disk metadata without needing to take any locks. This can be
166 used to peek inside metadata used by a virtual machine image
167 while the virtual machine is running. It can also be used to
168 peek inside the metadata of clustered VGs when clustered locking
169 is not configured or running. No attempt will be made to commu‐
170 nicate with the device-mapper kernel driver, so this option is
171 unable to report whether or not LVs are actually in use.
172 --reportformat basic|json
174 Overrides current output format for reports which is defined
175 globally by the report/output_format setting in lvm.conf. basic
176 is the original format with columns and rows. If there is more
177 than one report per command, each report is prefixed with the
178 report name for identification. json produces report output in
179 JSON format. See lvmreport(7) for more information.
180 -S|--select String
182 Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified
183 criteria. The criteria syntax is described by --select help and
184 lvmreport(7). For reporting commands, one row is displayed for
185 each object matching the criteria. See --options help for
186 selectable object fields. Rows can be displayed with an addi‐
187 tional "selected" field (-o selected) showing 1 if the row
188 matches the selection and 0 otherwise. For non-reporting com‐
189 mands which process LVM entities, the selection is used to
190 choose items to process.
191 --separator String
193 String to use to separate each column. Useful if grepping the
194 output.
195 --shared
197 Report/display shared VGs that would otherwise be skipped when
198 lvmlockd is not being used on the host. See lvmlockd(8) for
199 more information about shared VGs.
200 -s|--short
202 Give a short listing showing the existence of VGs.
203 -O|--sort String
205 Comma-separated ordered list of columns to sort by. Replaces the
206 default selection. Precede any column with - for a reverse sort
207 on that column.
208 -t|--test
210 Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is
211 implemented by disabling all metadata writing but nevertheless
212 returning success to the calling function. This may lead to
213 unusual error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool
214 relies on reading back metadata it believes has changed but
215 hasn't.
216 --unbuffered
218 Produce output immediately without sorting or aligning the col‐
219 umns properly.
220 --units r|R|h|H|b|B|s|S|k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T|p|P|e|E
222 All sizes are output in these units: human-(r)eadable with '<'
223 rounding indicator, (h)uman-readable, (b)ytes, (s)ectors,
224 (k)ilobytes, (m)egabytes, (g)igabytes, (t)erabytes, (p)etabytes,
225 (e)xabytes. Capitalise to use multiples of 1000 (S.I.) instead
226 of 1024. Custom units can be specified, e.g. --units 3M.
227 -v|--verbose ...
229 Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the
230 detail of messages sent to stdout and stderr.
231 --version
233 Display version information.
234 -y|--yes
236 Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume
237 the answer yes. Use with extreme caution. (For automatic no,
238 see -qq.)
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241 VG
242 Volume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.
243 Tag
245 Tag name. See lvm(8) for information about tag names and using
246 tags in place of a VG, LV or PV.
247 String
249 See the option description for information about the string con‐
250 tent.
251 Size[UNIT]
253 Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input
254 units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capi‐
255 talization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default
256 input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT rep‐
257 resents other possible input units: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE. b|B is
258 bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is kilobytes, m|M is
259 megabytes, g|G is gigabytes, t|T is terabytes, p|P is petabytes,
260 e|E is exabytes. (This should not be confused with the output
261 control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)
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264 See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm.
265 For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG
266 parameter.
267
269 lvm(8) lvm.conf(5) lvmconfig(8)
270 pvchange(8) pvck(8) pvcreate(8) pvdisplay(8) pvmove(8) pvremove(8)
272 pvresize(8) pvs(8) pvscan(8)
273 vgcfgbackup(8) vgcfgrestore(8) vgchange(8) vgck(8) vgcreate(8) vgcon‐
275 vert(8) vgdisplay(8) vgexport(8) vgextend(8) vgimport(8) vgimport‐
276 clone(8) vgmerge(8) vgmknodes(8) vgreduce(8) vgremove(8) vgrename(8)
277 vgs(8) vgscan(8) vgsplit(8)
278 lvcreate(8) lvchange(8) lvconvert(8) lvdisplay(8) lvextend(8) lvre‐
280 duce(8) lvremove(8) lvrename(8) lvresize(8) lvs(8) lvscan(8)
281 lvm-fullreport(8) lvm-lvpoll(8) lvm2-activation-generator(8) blkdeacti‐
283 vate(8) lvmdump(8)
284 dmeventd(8) lvmetad(8) lvmpolld(8) lvmlockd(8) lvmlockctl(8) clvmd(8)
286 cmirrord(8) lvmdbusd(8)
287 lvmsystemid(7) lvmreport(7) lvmraid(7) lvmthin(7) lvmcache(7)
289Red Hat, Inc. LVM TOOLS 2.02.183(2) (2018-12-07) VGDISPLAY(8)