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

NAME
       lvdisplay -- Display information about a logical volume

SYNOPSIS
       lvdisplay
           [ option_args ]
           [ position_args ]

DESCRIPTION
       lvdisplay  shows  the  attributes of LVs, like size, read/write status,
       snapshot information, etc.

       lvs(8) is a preferred alternative that shows the same  information  and
       more, using a more compact and configurable output format.

USAGE
       lvdisplay
           [ -a|--all ]
           [ -c|--colon ]
           [ -C|--columns ]
           [ -H|--history ]
           [ -m|--maps ]
           [ -o|--options String ]
           [ -O|--sort String ]
           [ -S|--select String ]
           [    --aligned ]
           [    --binary ]
           [    --configreport log|vg|lv|pv|pvseg|seg ]
           [    --foreign ]
           [    --ignorelockingfailure ]
           [    --logonly ]
           [    --noheadings ]
           [    --nosuffix ]
           [    --readonly ]
           [    --segments ]
           [    --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 ]
           [ VG|LV|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  internal LVs.  These are components of
              normal LVs, such as mirrors, which are not independently  acces-
              sible, e.g. not mountable.

       --binary
              Use binary values "0" or "1" instead of descriptive literal val-
              ues 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 con-
              trol 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) set-
              tings.   The  String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf(5), or
              may use section/field syntax.  See lvm.conf(5) for more informa-
              tion 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 appear to be missing. This op-
              tion can be repeated, or accepts a comma separated list  of  de-
              vices. 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 managed with the lvmdevices(8)  com-
              mand.   This  overrides  the lvm.conf(5) devices/devicesfile and
              devices/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 information about foreign VGs.

       -h|--help
              Display help text.

       -H|--history
              Include historical LVs in the output.  (This has no  effect  un-
              less LVs were removed while lvm.conf(5) metadata/record_lvs_his-
              tory was enabled.

       --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.  out-
              put: record the default command output.  debug: record full com-
              mand debugging.

       --lockopt String
              Used  to  pass  options for special cases to lvmlockd.  See lvm-
              lockd(8) for more information.

       --logonly
              Suppress command report and display only log report.

       --longhelp
              Display long help text.

       -m|--maps
              Display the mapping of logical extents to PVs and  physical  ex-
              tents.   To  map  physical  extents  to logical extents use: pvs
              --segments -o+lv_name,seg_start_pe,segtype

       --noheadings
              Suppress the headings line that is normally the  first  line  of
              output.  Useful if grepping the output.

       --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
              appropriate.

       --nolocking
              Disable locking. Use with caution, concurrent commands may  pro-
              duce 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  (removing  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  re-
              peating   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  --ver-
              bose.   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.

       --segments

       -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  se-
              lectable object fields.  Rows can be displayed with an addition-
              al "selected" field (-o selected) showing 1 if the  row  matches
              the selection 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.

       -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 metadata writing but nevertheless
              returning success to the calling function. This may lead to  un-
              usual  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  col-
              umns 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-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.  Custom units can be specified, e.g. --units 3M.

       -v|--verbose ...
              Set  verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the de-
              tail 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
       VG     Volume Group name.  See lvm(8) for valid names.

       LV     Logical Volume name.  See lvm(8) for valid names.  An  LV  posi-
              tional  arg  generally  includes  the  VG name and LV name, e.g.
              VG/LV.

       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 con-
              tent.

       Size[UNIT]
              Size is an input number that accepts an  optional  unit.   Input
              units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capi-
              talization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to  1024.   The  default
              input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT.  UNIT rep-
              resents 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 generally 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), lvmcache(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7),
       lvmvdo(7), lvmautoactivation(7)

Red Hat, Inc.          LVM TOOLS 2.03.22(2) (2023-08-02)          LVDISPLAY(8)

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