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pvs is the command to show formatted information about physical volumes as used in LVM. The command is located in /sbin

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...]] 

See lvm for common options.

--aligned

Use with --separator to align the output columns.

--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, pv_free, pv_used, pv_name, pv_attr, pv_pe_count, pv_pe_alloc_count. The "pv_" prefix is optional. Columns mentioned in vgs (8) can also be chosen. The pv_attr bits are: (a)llocatable and e(x)ported.

-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.

--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

example

# pvs
 PV         VG   Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
 /dev/md124 mass lvm2 a-   931.51G  31.51G
 /dev/md126 raid lvm2 a-   125.00G   2.50G
 /dev/md127 raid lvm2 a-   335.75G 305.75G
 /dev/sdb1  bck  lvm2 a-   931.51G 520.00M

See also

• lvs(8), vgs(8) om the man page: