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There are three commands you can use to display properties of LVM physical volume
pvscan.
The pvs command provides physical volume information in a configurable form, displ
volume. The pvs command provides a great deal of format control, and is useful for s
using the pvs command to customize your output, see Section 4.9, “Customized Rep
(custom_report.html).
nage The pvdisplay command provides a verbose multi-line output for each physical volum
properties (size, extents, volume group, etc.) in a fixed format.
The following example shows the output of the pvdisplay command for a single phys
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The pvscan command scans all supported LVM block devices in the system for physi
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The following command shows all physical devices found:
You can define a filter in the lvm.conf so that this command will avoid scanning spec
information on using filters to control which devices are scanned, see Section 4.6, “C
Scans with Filters” (lvm_filters.html).
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