NAME
vgs - report information about volume groups
SYNOPSIS
vgs [--aligned] [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure]
[--nameprefixes] [--noheadings] [--nosuffix] [-o|--options [+]Field[,Field]]
[-O|--sort [+|-]Key1[,[+|-]Key2[,...]]] [-P|--partial] [--rows] [--separator
Separator] [--unbuffered] [--units hsbkmgtHKMGT] [--unquoted] [-v|--verbose]
[--version] [VolumeGroupName [VolumeGroupName...]]
DESCRIPTION
vgs produces formatted output about volume groups.
OPTIONS
See
lvm for common options.
- --aligned
- Use with --separator to align the output columns.
- --nameprefixes
- Add an "LVM2_" prefix plus the field name to the
output. Useful with --noheadings to produce a list of field=value pairs
that can be used to set environment variables (for example, in udev
(7) rules).
- --noheadings
- Suppress the headings line that is normally the first line
of output. Useful if grepping the output.
- --nosuffix
- Suppress the suffix on output sizes. Use with --units
(except h and H) if processing the output.
- -o, --options
- Comma-separated ordered list of columns. Precede the list
with '+' to append to the default selection of columns. Column names are:
vg_fmt, vg_uuid, vg_name, vg_attr, vg_size, vg_free, vg_sysid,
vg_extent_size, vg_extent_count, vg_free_count, max_lv, max_pv, pv_count,
lv_count, snap_count, vg_seqno, vg_tags, vg_mda_count, vg_mda_free, and
vg_mda_size. Any "vg_" prefixes are optional. Columns mentioned
in either pvs (8) or lvs (8) can also be chosen, but columns
cannot be taken from both at the same time. Use -o help to view the full
list of fields available.
- The vg_attr bits are:
- 1
- Permissions: (w)riteable, (r)ead-only
- 2
- Resi(z)eable
- 3
- E(x)ported
- 4
- (p)artial
- 5
- Allocation policy: (c)ontiguous, c(l)ing, (n)ormal,
(a)nywhere, (i)nherited
- 6
- (c)lustered
- -O, --sort
- Comma-separated ordered list of columns to sort by.
Replaces the default selection. Precede any column with - for a reverse
sort on that column.
- --rows
- Output columns as rows.
- --separator Separator
- String to use to separate each column. Useful if grepping
the output.
- --unbuffered
- Produce output immediately without sorting or aligning the
columns properly.
- --units hsbkmgtHKMGT
- All sizes are output in these units: (h)uman-readable,
(s)ectors, (b)ytes, (k)ilobytes, (m)egabytes, (g)igabytes, (t)erabytes.
Capitalise to use multiples of 1000 (S.I.) instead of 1024. Can also
specify custom (u)nits e.g. --units 3M
- --unquoted
- When used with --nameprefixes, output values in the
field=value pairs are not quoted.
SEE ALSO
lvm(8),
vgdisplay(8),
pvs(8),
lvs(8)