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pvs - report information about physical volumes
pvs [--aligned] [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure]
  [--nameprefixes] [--noheadings] [--nosuffix] [-o|--options [+]Field[,Field]]
  [-O|--sort [+|-]Key1[,[+|-]Key2[,...]]] [--rows] [--segments] [--separator
  Separator] [--unbuffered] [--units hsbkmgtHKMGT] [--unquoted] [-v|--verbose]
  [--version] [PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...]]
pvs produces formatted output about physical volumes.
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: 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, pv_mda_count, pv_mda_free, and pv_mda_size. With --segments, any
      "pvseg_" prefixes are optional; otherwise any "pv_"
      prefixes are optional. Columns mentioned in vgs (8) can also be
      chosen. The pv_attr bits are: (a)llocatable and e(x)ported. Use -o help
      to view the full list of fields available.
- --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.
- -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.
lvm(8), pvdisplay(8), lvs(8), vgs(8)