.TH PVS 8 "LVM TOOLS" "Sistina Software UK" \" -*- nroff -*-
.SH NAME
pvs \- report information about physical volumes
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pvs
[\-\-aligned] [\-d/\-\-debug] [\-h/\-?/\-\-help]
[\-\-ignorelockingfailure] [\-\-noheadings] [\-\-nosuffix]
[\-o/\-\-options [+]Field[,Field]]
[\-O/\-\-sort [+/-]Key1[,[+/-]Key2[,...]]]
[\-\-separator Separator] [\-\-unbuffered]
[\-\-units hsbkmgtHKMGT]
[\-v/\-\-verbose] 
[\-\-version] [PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...]]
.SH DESCRIPTION
pvs produces formatted output about physical volumes.
.SH OPTIONS
See \fBlvm\fP for common options.
.TP
.I \-\-aligned
Use with \-\-separator to align the output columns.
.TP
.I \-\-noheadings
Suppress the headings line that is normally the first line of output.
Useful if grepping the output.
.TP
.I \-\-nosuffix
Suppress the suffix on output sizes.  Use with \-\-units (except h and H)
if processing the output.
.TP
.I \-o, \-\-options
Comma-separated ordered list of columns.  Precede the list with '+' to append
to the default selection of columns.  Column names are: pv_fmt, pv_uuid,
pv_size, dev_size, pv_free, pv_used, pv_name, pv_attr, pv_pe_count, 
pv_pe_alloc_count, pv_tags, pvseg_start, pvseg_size, pe_start.
With --segments, any "pvseg_" prefixes are optional; otherwise any
"pv_" prefixes are optional.  Columns mentioned in \fBvgs (8)\fP can also
be chosen. The pv_attr bits are: (a)llocatable and e(x)ported.
Use \fb-o help\fP to view the full list of fields available.
.TP
.I \-\-segments
Produces one line of output for each contiguous allocation of space on each
Physical Volume, showing the start (pvseg_start) and length (pvseg_size) in
units of physical extents.
.TP
.I \-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.
.TP
.I \-\-separator Separator
String to use to separate each column.  Useful if grepping the output.
.TP
.I \-\-unbuffered
Produce output immediately without sorting or aligning the columns properly.
.TP
.I \-\-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
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR pvdisplay (8),
.BR lvs (8),
.BR vgs (8)