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LINUX: Commands For Getting Information on Logical Volumes (How To Doc) (lvs commands)

Below commands can be used be used for getting information on logical volumes and volume groups on Linux hosts.

lvdisplay


lvdisplay

This command displays all the logical volumes with all the details like LV Path, Volume & Group name, size etc. Below is sample output.
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
  LV Name                LogVol01
  VG Name                VolGroup00
  LV UUID                MwEadG-LSm3-Abl1-Poxp-M9or-z6O3-wvt1eY
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time localhost.localdomain, 2014-02-20 07:21:52 -0500
  LV Status              available
  # open                 2
  LV Size                512.00 MiB
  Current LE             128
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           252:0

lvs -o +devices


lvs -o +devices

This command lists all the logical devices corresponding to logical volume. Below is sample output.
 LV       VG         Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert Devices
  LogVol00 VolGroup00 -wi-ao----   7.00g                                              /dev/xvda2(128)
  LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-ao---- 512.00m                                              /dev/xvda2(0)

lsblk


lsblk

This command gives the device name dm-* to which the logical volumes are mapped. Below are sample outputs.
[root@host ~]# lsblk
NAME                           MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvda                           202:0    0   10G  0 disk
├─xvda1                        202:1    0  250M  0 part /boot
└─xvda2                        202:2    0  9.8G  0 part
  ├─VolGroup00-LogVol01 (dm-0) 252:0    0  512M  0 lvm  [SWAP]
  └─VolGroup00-LogVol00 (dm-1) 252:1    0    7G  0 lvm  /
xvdb                           202:16   0   32G  0 disk
[root@tboyella-ol6-logical-volume ~]#

Products to which Article Applies


All Linux Operating Systems

Additional Reference

https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-lvs/





tarun boyella



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