Pvs

pvs Display information about physical volumes

Examples

pvs

No output if not devices

Example output, with one PV create but not assigned to any VG:

pvs
  PV                                              VG       Fmt  Attr PSize    PFree
  /dev/mapper/3600508b1001c553702fe495119c850f1p1 VG1 lvm2 a--  <446.60g  32.00m
  /dev/mapper/3600a09803831416c592b4f566453764t            lvm2 ---   250.00g 250.00g
  /dev/sdc4                                       VG2     lvm2 a--    <8.28t 100.00g

Output with missing device:

pvs
  WARNING: Device for PV R3Hfm8-5J2Z-Tl59-5Q5O-ZpDq-foNa-SGpQst not found or rejected by a filter.
  PV                                              VG       Fmt  Attr PSize    PFree
  /dev/mapper/3600508b1001c553702fe495119c850f1p1 VG1 lvm2 a--  <446.60g  32.00m
  /dev/mapper/3600a09803831416c592b4f566453764t            lvm2 ---   250.00g 250.00g
  /dev/sdc4                                       VG2     lvm2 a--    <8.28t 100.00g

Activities

• Change no_path_retry to no_path_retry queue in multipath.conf configuration options to avoid pvs to hang : https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7022310

See also

• dmsetup ls and multipath -ll
• LVM: LVM errors LVM scan commands lkvmetad, Add a new disk

scan: pvscan vgscan

LVM: lvs lvmscan lvm fullreport lvmreport lvmconfig lvmdump lvmcheck lvm dumpconfig

Scan: pvs vgs lvs pvscan vgscan

PV: pvcreate pvremove pvscan pvremove pvscan pvs pvchange pvck pvdisplay pvresize

LV: lvdisplay lvcreate lvremove, lvresize, lvextend, lvreduce, lvrename

VG: vgdisplay,vgcreate,vgremove, vgextend, vgreduce, vgscan, vgchange, vgrename, vgcfgbackup, vgcfgrestore, vgimportclone, vgck

Check commands: pvck vgck

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/pvs.8.html

http://manpages.org/multipathconf/5