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LVM(8)			    System Manager's Manual			LVM(8)



NAME
       lvm -- LVM2 tools

SYNOPSIS
       lvm [command|file]

DESCRIPTION
       lvm  provides  the command-line tools for LVM2.	A separate manual page
       describes each command in detail.

       If lvm is invoked with no  arguments  it	 presents  a  readline	prompt
       (assuming  it was compiled with readline support).  LVM commands may be
       entered interactively at this prompt with readline facilities including
       history	and  command name and option completion.  Refer to readline(3)
       for details.

       If lvm is invoked with argv[0] set to the name of a specific  LVM  com-
       mand  (for  example  by using a hard or soft link) it acts as that com-
       mand.

       On invocation, lvm requires that only  the  standard  file  descriptors
       stdin,  stdout and stderr are available.	 If others are found, they get
       closed and messages are issued warning about the	 leak.	 This  warning
       can   be	 suppressed  by	 setting  the  environment  variable  LVM_SUP-
       PRESS_FD_WARNINGS.

       Where commands take VG or LV names as arguments, the full path name  is
       optional.   An  LV called "lvol0" in a VG called "vg0" can be specified
       as "vg0/lvol0".	Where a list of VGs is required but is left  empty,  a
       list  of	 all VGs will be substituted.  Where a list of LVs is required
       but a VG is given, a list of all the LVs in that	 VG  will  be  substi-
       tuted.	So  lvdisplay vg0 will display all the LVs in "vg0".  Tags can
       also be used - see --addtag below.

       One advantage of using the built-in shell is that configuration	infor-
       mation gets cached internally between commands.

       A file containing a simple script with one command per line can also be
       given on the command line.  The script can also be executed directly if
       the first line is #! followed by the absolute path of lvm.

BUILT-IN COMMANDS
       The  following commands are built into lvm without links normally being
       created in the filesystem for them.

       config	     The same as lvmconfig(8) below.
       devtypes	     Display the recognised built-in block device types.
       dumpconfig    The same as lvmconfig(8) below.
       formats	     Display recognised metadata formats.
       fullreport    Report information about PVs, PV segments, VGs,  LVs  and
		     LV segments, all at once.
       help	     Display the help text.
       lastlog	     Display  log  report  of last command run in LVM shell if
		     command log reporting is enabled.
       lvpoll	     Complete lvmpolld operations (Internal command).
       pvdata	     Not implemented in LVM2.
       segtypes	     Display recognised Logical Volume segment types.
       systemid	     Display any system ID currently set on this host.
       tags	     Display any tags defined on this host.
       version	     Display version information.

COMMANDS
       The following commands implement the core LVM functionality.

       pvchange	     Change attributes of a Physical Volume.
       pvck	     Check Physical Volume metadata.
       pvcreate	     Initialize a disk or partition for use by LVM.
       pvdisplay     Display attributes of a Physical Volume.
       pvmove	     Move Physical Extents.
       pvremove	     Remove a Physical Volume.
       pvresize	     Resize a disk or partition in use by LVM2.
       pvs	     Report information about Physical Volumes.
       pvscan	     Scan all disks for Physical Volumes.
       vgcfgbackup   Backup Volume Group descriptor area.
       vgcfgrestore  Restore Volume Group descriptor area.
       vgchange	     Change attributes of a Volume Group.
       vgck	     Check Volume Group metadata.
       vgconvert     Convert Volume Group metadata format.
       vgcreate	     Create a Volume Group.
       vgdisplay     Display attributes of Volume Groups.
       vgexport	     Make volume Groups unknown to the system.
       vgextend	     Add Physical Volumes to a Volume Group.
       vgimport	     Make exported Volume Groups known to the system.
       vgimportclone Import and rename duplicated Volume Group (e.g.  a	 hard-
		     ware snapshot).
       vgmerge	     Merge two Volume Groups.
       vgmknodes     Recreate  Volume  Group directory and Logical Volume spe-
		     cial files
       vgreduce	     Reduce a Volume Group by removing one  or	more  Physical
		     Volumes.
       vgremove	     Remove a Volume Group.
       vgrename	     Rename a Volume Group.
       vgs	     Report information about Volume Groups.
       vgscan	     Scan all disks for Volume Groups and rebuild caches.
       vgsplit	     Split a Volume Group into two, moving any logical volumes
		     from one Volume Group to another by moving entire	Physi-
		     cal Volumes.
       lvchange	     Change attributes of a Logical Volume.
       lvconvert     Convert  a	 Logical Volume from linear to mirror or snap-
		     shot.
       lvcreate	     Create a Logical Volume in an existing Volume Group.
       lvdisplay     Display attributes of a Logical Volume.
       lvextend	     Extend the size of a Logical Volume.
       lvmchange     Change attributes of the Logical Volume Manager.
       lvmconfig     Display  the  configuration  information  after   loading
		     lvm.conf(5) and any other configuration files.
       lvmdiskscan   Scan for all devices visible to LVM2.
       lvmdump	     Create lvm2 information dumps for diagnostic purposes.
       lvreduce	     Reduce the size of a Logical Volume.
       lvremove	     Remove a Logical Volume.
       lvrename	     Rename a Logical Volume.
       lvresize	     Resize a Logical Volume.
       lvs	     Report information about Logical Volumes.
       lvscan	     Scan (all disks) for Logical Volumes.

       The  following commands are not implemented in LVM2 but might be in the
       future: lvmsadc, lvmsar, pvdata.

OPTIONS
       The following options are available for many of the commands.  They are
       implemented  generically	 and  documented  here rather than repeated on
       individual manual pages.

       Additional hyphens within  option  names	 are  ignored.	 For  example,
       --readonly and --read-only are both accepted.

       -h|-?|--help
	      Display the help text.

       --version
	      Display version information.

       -v|--verbose
	      Set  verbose  level.  Repeat  from  1 to 3 times to increase the
	      detail of messages sent to stdout and stderr.  Overrides	config
	      file setting.

       -d|--debug
	      Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail
	      of messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if  configured).
	      Overrides config file setting.

       -q|--quiet
	      Suppress	output and log messages.  Overrides -d and -v.	Repeat
	      once to also suppress any prompts with answer 'no'.

       --yes
	      Don't prompt for confirmation interactively but  instead	always
	      assume the answer is 'yes'.  Take great care if you use this!

       -t|--test
	      Run  in  test  mode. Commands will not update metadata.  This is
	      implemented by disabling all metadata writing  but  nevertheless
	      returning	 success  to  the  calling function.  This may lead to
	      unusual error messages  in  multi-stage  operations  if  a  tool
	      relies  on  reading  back	 metadata  it believes has changed but
	      hasn't.

       --driverloaded {y|n}
	      Whether or not the device-mapper kernel driver  is  loaded.   If
	      you  set	this  to  n,  no  attempt  will be made to contact the
	      driver.

       -A|--autobackup {y|n}
	      Whether or not to metadata should	 be  backed  up	 automatically
	      after  a	change.	 You are strongly advised not to disable this!
	      See vgcfgbackup(8).

       -P|--partial
	      When set, the tools will do their best to provide access to Vol-
	      ume Groups that are only partially available (one or more Physi-
	      cal Volumes belonging to the Volume Group are missing  from  the
	      system).	  Where	  part	 of   a	 logical  volume  is  missing,
	      /dev/ioerror will be substituted, and you could  use  dmsetup(8)
	      to  set this up to return I/O errors when accessed, or create it
	      as a large block device of nulls.	 Metadata may not  be  changed
	      with this option. To insert a replacement Physical Volume of the
	      same or large size use pvcreate -u to set the uuid to match  the
	      original followed by vgcfgrestore(8).

       -S|--select Selection
	      For  reporting  commands, display only rows that match Selection
	      criteria.	 All rows are displayed with the additional "selected"
	      column  (-o selected) showing 1 if the row matches the Selection
	      and 0 otherwise. For non-reporting commands  which  process  LVM
	      entities,	 the  selection can be used to match items to process.
	      See SELECTION CRITERIA section of this man page for more	infor-
	      mation about the way the selection criteria are constructed.

       -M|--metadatatype Type
	      Specifies which type of on-disk metadata to use, such as lvm1 or
	      lvm2, which can be abbreviated to	 1  or	2  respectively.   The
	      default  (lvm2)  can  be changed by setting format in the global
	      section of the config file lvm.conf(5).

       --ignorelockingfailure
	      This lets you proceed with read-only metadata operations such as
	      lvchange	-ay and vgchange -ay even if the locking module fails.
	      One use for this is in a system init script if the  lock	direc-
	      tory is mounted read-only when the script runs.

       --ignoreskippedcluster
	      Use to avoid exiting with an non-zero status code if the command
	      is run without  clustered	 locking  and  some  clustered	Volume
	      Groups have to be skipped over.

       --readonly
	      Run  the command in a special read-only mode which will read on-
	      disk metadata without needing to take any locks.	 This  can  be
	      used  to	peek  inside  metadata used by a virtual machine image
	      while the virtual machine is running.  It can also  be  used  to
	      peek  inside  the metadata of clustered Volume Groups when clus-
	      tered locking is not configured or running.  No attempt will  be
	      made  to	communicate  with  the device-mapper kernel driver, so
	      this option is unable to report whether or not  Logical  Volumes
	      are actually in use.

       --foreign
	      Cause the command to access foreign VGs, that would otherwise be
	      skipped.	It can be used to report or display a VG that is owned
	      by  another  host.   This	 option can cause a command to perform
	      poorly because lvmetad caching is not used and metadata is  read
	      from disks.

       --shared
	      Cause  the command to access shared VGs, that would otherwise be
	      skipped when lvmlockd is not being used.	 It  can  be  used  to
	      report or display a lockd VG without locking. Applicable only if
	      LVM is compiled with lockd support.

       --addtag Tag
	      Add the tag Tag to a PV, VG or LV.  Supply this argument	multi-
	      ple  times  to  add  more than one tag at once.  A tag is a word
	      that can be  used	 to  group  LVM2  objects  of  the  same  type
	      together.	 Tags can be given on the command line in place of PV,
	      VG or LV arguments.  Tags should be prefixed  with  @  to	 avoid
	      ambiguity.   Each	 tag  is  expanded  by	replacing  it with all
	      objects possessing that tag which are of the  type  expected  by
	      its  position  on	 the  command line.  PVs can only possess tags
	      while they are part of a Volume Group: PV tags are discarded  if
	      the  PV  is  removed  from the VG.  As an example, you could tag
	      some LVs as database and others as userdata  and	then  activate
	      the database ones with lvchange -ay @database.  Objects can pos-
	      sess multiple tags simultaneously.  Only the new	LVM2  metadata
	      format  supports tagging: objects using the LVM1 metadata format
	      cannot be tagged because the on-disk format does not support it.
	      Characters  allowed  in  tags are: A-Z a-z 0-9 _ + . - and as of
	      version 2.02.78 the following characters are also accepted: /  =
	      ! : # &.

       --deltag Tag
	      Delete the tag Tag from a PV, VG or LV, if it's present.	Supply
	      this argument multiple times to remove  more  than  one  tag  at
	      once.

       --alloc {anywhere|contiguous|cling|inherit|normal}
	      Selects  the  allocation policy when a command needs to allocate
	      Physical Extents from the Volume Group.  Each Volume  Group  and
	      Logical  Volume  has  an allocation policy defined.  The default
	      for a Volume Group is normal which  applies  common-sense	 rules
	      such  as	not placing parallel stripes on the same Physical Vol-
	      ume.  The default for a Logical Volume is inherit which  applies
	      the  same policy as for the Volume Group.	 These policies can be
	      changed using lvchange(8) and vgchange(8) or overridden  on  the
	      command  line of any command that performs allocation.  The con-
	      tiguous policy requires that  new	 Physical  Extents  be	placed
	      adjacent	to existing Physical Extents.  The cling policy places
	      new Physical Extents on the same	Physical  Volume  as  existing
	      Physical	Extents	 in the same stripe of the Logical Volume.  If
	      there are sufficient free Physical Extents to satisfy an alloca-
	      tion  request  but normal doesn't use them, anywhere will - even
	      if that reduces performance by placing two stripes on  the  same
	      Physical Volume.

       --commandprofile ProfileName
	      Selects the command configuration profile to use when processing
	      an LVM command.  See also lvm.conf(5) for more information about
	      command  profile	config and the way it fits with other LVM con-
	      figuration methods. Using --commandprofile option overrides  any
	      command  profile	specified  via LVM_COMMAND_PROFILE environment
	      variable.

       --metadataprofile ProfileName
	      Selects the metadata configuration profile to use when  process-
	      ing  an  LVM command.  When using metadata profile during Volume
	      Group or Logical Volume creation, the metadata profile  name  is
	      saved  in	 metadata. When such Volume Group or Logical Volume is
	      processed next  time,  the  metadata  profile  is	 automatically
	      applied  and  the	 use of --metadataprofile option is not neces-
	      sary. See also lvm.conf(5) for more information  about  metadata
	      profile  config and the way it fits with other LVM configuration
	      methods.

       --profile ProfileName
	      A	 short	form  of  --metadataprofile  for  vgcreate,  lvcreate,
	      vgchange	and lvchange command and a short form of --commandpro-
	      file for any other command (with the exception of lvmconfig com-
	      mand  where  the --profile has special meaning, see lvmconfig(8)
	      for more information).

       --reportformat {basic|json}
	      Overrides current output format for  reports  which  is  defined
	      globally	 by   report/output_format  configuration  setting  in
	      lvm.conf(5).  The basic format is the original format with  col-
	      umns  and rows and if there is more than one report per command,
	      each report is prefixed with report's name  for  identification.
	      The json stands for report output in JSON format.

       --config ConfigurationString
	      Uses  the ConfigurationString as direct string representation of
	      the configuration to override the	 existing  configuration.  The
	      ConfigurationString is of exactly the same format as used in any
	      LVM configuration file. See  lvm.conf(5)	for  more  information
	      about direct config override on command line and the way it fits
	      with other LVM configuration methods.

VALID NAMES
       The valid characters for VG and LV names are: a-z A-Z 0-9 + _ . -

       VG names cannot begin with a hyphen.  The name of a new LV also	cannot
       begin  with  a  hyphen.	 However,  if  the configuration setting meta-
       data/record_lvs_history is enabled then an LV name with a hyphen	 as  a
       prefix  indicates  that, although the LV was removed, it is still being
       tracked because it forms part of the history of at least one LV that is
       still  present.	 This  helps  to record the ancestry of thin snapshots
       even after some links in the chain have been removed.  A	 reference  to
       the  historical	LV 'lvol1' in VG 'vg00' would be 'vg00/-lvol1' or just
       '-lvol1' if the VG is already set.  (The latter form must  be  preceded
       by  '--'	 to  terminate	command line option processing before reaching
       this argument.)

       There are also various reserved names that are used internally  by  lvm
       that  can not be used as LV or VG names. A VG cannot be called anything
       that exists in /dev/ at the time of creation, nor can it be called  '.'
       or  '..'.   An  LV  cannot be called '.', '..', 'snapshot' or 'pvmove'.
       The LV name  may	 also  not  contain  any  of  the  following  strings:
       '_cdata',  '_cmeta',  '_corig',	'_mlog', '_mimage', '_pmspare', '_rim-
       age', '_rmeta', '_tdata', '_tmeta' or '_vorigin'.  A directory  bearing
       the  name  of  each  Volume Group is created under /dev when any of its
       Logical Volumes are activated.  Each active Logical Volume is  accessi-
       ble  from  this	directory as a symbolic link leading to a device node.
       Links or nodes in /dev/mapper are intended only for  internal  use  and
       the  precise format and escaping might change between releases and dis-
       tributions.  Other  software  and  scripts  should  use	the  /dev/Vol-
       umeGroupName/LogicalVolumeName  format  to reduce the chance of needing
       amendment when the software is updated.	Should you need to process the
       node  names  in	/dev/mapper, you may use dmsetup splitname to separate
       out the original VG, LV and internal layer names.

UNIQUE NAMES
       VG names should be unique.  vgcreate will produce an error if the spec-
       ified  VG  name	matches an existing VG name.  However, there are cases
       where different VGs with the same name can appear to  LVM,  e.g.	 after
       moving disks or changing filters.

       When  VGs  with the same name exist, commands operating on all VGs will
       include all of the VGs with the same name.  If the ambiguous VG name is
       specified  on the command line, the command will produce an error.  The
       error states that multiple VGs  exist  with  the	 specified  name.   To
       process one of the VGs specifically, the --select option should be used
       with the UUID of the intended VG: '--select vg_uuid=<uuid>'.

       An exception is if all but one of the VGs with the shared name is  for-
       eign  (see  lvmsystemid(7).)  In this case, the one VG that is not for-
       eign is assumed to be the intended VG and is processed.

       LV names are unique within a VG.	 The name of an historical  LV	cannot
       be reused until the historical LV has itself been removed or renamed.


ALLOCATION
       When  an	 operation  needs to allocate Physical Extents for one or more
       Logical Volumes, the tools proceed as follows:

       First of all, they generate the complete set  of	 unallocated  Physical
       Extents	in  the	 Volume	 Group.	 If any ranges of Physical Extents are
       supplied at the end of the  command  line,  only	 unallocated  Physical
       Extents	within those ranges on the specified Physical Volumes are con-
       sidered.

       Then they try  each  allocation	policy	in  turn,  starting  with  the
       strictest  policy  (contiguous)	and  ending with the allocation policy
       specified using --alloc or set as the default for the particular	 Logi-
       cal  Volume  or	Volume Group concerned.	 For each policy, working from
       the lowest-numbered Logical Extent of the empty	Logical	 Volume	 space
       that  needs  to	be  filled,  they  allocate  as much space as possible
       according to the restrictions imposed by the policy.  If more space  is
       needed, they move on to the next policy.

       The restrictions are as follows:

       Contiguous  requires  that  the physical location of any Logical Extent
       that is not the first Logical Extent of a Logical Volume is adjacent to
       the physical location of the Logical Extent immediately preceding it.

       Cling  requires that the Physical Volume used for any Logical Extent to
       be added to an existing Logical Volume is already in use	 by  at	 least
       one  Logical  Extent earlier in that Logical Volume.  If the configura-
       tion parameter allocation/cling_tag_list is defined, then two  Physical
       Volumes are considered to match if any of the listed tags is present on
       both Physical Volumes.  This allows groups  of  Physical	 Volumes  with
       similar	properties  (such as their physical location) to be tagged and
       treated as equivalent for allocation purposes.

       When a Logical Volume is striped or mirrored,  the  above  restrictions
       are  applied  independently  to	each stripe or mirror image (leg) that
       needs space.

       Normal will not choose a Physical Extent that shares the same  Physical
       Volume as a Logical Extent already allocated to a parallel Logical Vol-
       ume (i.e. a different stripe or mirror image/leg) at  the  same	offset
       within that parallel Logical Volume.

       When  allocating	 a  mirror  log at the same time as Logical Volumes to
       hold the mirror data, Normal will first try to select different	Physi-
       cal  Volumes  for the log and the data.	If that's not possible and the
       allocation/mirror_logs_require_separate_pvs configuration parameter  is
       set  to	0, it will then allow the log to share Physical Volume(s) with
       part of the data.

       When allocating thin pool metadata, similar considerations to those  of
       a  mirror  log  in  the	last paragraph apply based on the value of the
       allocation/thin_pool_metadata_require_separate_pvs configuration param-
       eter.

       If  you	rely upon any layout behaviour beyond that documented here, be
       aware that it might change in future versions of the code.

       For example, if you supply on the command line two empty Physical  Vol-
       umes  that  have an identical number of free Physical Extents available
       for allocation, the current code considers using each of	 them  in  the
       order  they  are listed, but there is no guarantee that future releases
       will maintain that property.  If it is important to obtain  a  specific
       layout  for  a  particular  Logical Volume, then you should build it up
       through a sequence of lvcreate(8) and lvconvert(8) steps such that  the
       restrictions  described	above  applied to each step leave the tools no
       discretion over the layout.

       To view the way the allocation process currently works in any  specific
       case,  read  the debug logging output, for example by adding -vvvv to a
       command.

LOGICAL VOLUME TYPES
       Some logical volume types are simple to create and can be done  with  a
       single  lvcreate(8)  command.   The  linear  and striped logical volume
       types are an example of this.  Other logical volume types  may  require
       more than one command to create.	 The cache (lvmcache(7)) and thin pro-
       visioning (lvmthin(7)) types are examples of this.

SELECTION CRITERIA
       The selection criteria are a set of statements combined by logical  and
       grouping	 operators.  The statement consists of column name for which a
       set of valid values is defined using comparison operators. For complete
       list  of	 column	 names (fields) that can be used in selection, see the
       output of <lvm reporting command> -S help.

   Comparison operators (cmp_op)
       =~     Matching regular expression.
       !~     Not matching regular expression.
       =      Equal to.
       !=     Not equal to.
       >=     Greater than or equal to.
       >      Greater than
       <=     Less than or equal to.
       <      Less than.

   Binary logical operators (cmp_log)
       &&     All fields must match
       ,      All fields must match
       ||     At least one field must match
       #      At least one field must match

   Unary logical operators
       !      Logical negation

   Grouping operators
       (      Left parenthesis
       )      Right parenthesis
       [      List start
       ]      List end
       {      List subset start
       }      List subset end

   Informal grammar specification
       STATEMENT  =  column  cmp_op  VALUE  |  STATEMENT  log_op  STATEMENT  |
	      (STATEMENT) | !(STATEMENT)

       VALUE = [VALUE log_op VALUE]
	      For list-based types: string list. Matches strictly.  The log_op
	      must always be of one type within the whole list value.

       VALUE = {VALUE log_op VALUE}
	      For list-based types: string list. Matches a subset.  The log_op
	      must always be of one type within the whole list value.

       VALUE = value
	      For  scalar types: number (integer), size (floating point number
	      with size unit suffix), percent (floating point number  with  or
	      without % suffix), string.

DIAGNOSTICS
       All  tools return a status code of zero on success or non-zero on fail-
       ure.  The non-zero codes distinguish only between the broad  categories
       of  unrecognised	 commands,  problems processing the command line argu-
       ments and any other failures.  As LVM remains under active development,
       the code used in a specific case occasionally changes between releases.
       Message text may also change.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       HOME   Directory containing .lvm_history if the internal readline shell
	      is invoked.

       LVM_OUT_FD
	      File descriptor to use for common output from LVM commands.

       LVM_ERR_FD
	      File descriptor to use for error output from LVM commands.

       LVM_REPORT_FD
	      File descriptor to use for report output from LVM commands.

       LVM_COMMAND_PROFILE
	      Name  of	default	 command profile to use for LVM commands. This
	      profile is overriden by direct use of  --commandprofile  command
	      line option.

       LVM_SYSTEM_DIR
	      Directory	 containing  lvm.conf(5)  and  other LVM system files.
	      Defaults to "/etc/lvm".

       LVM_SUPPRESS_FD_WARNINGS
	      Suppress warnings about unexpected file descriptors passed  into
	      LVM.

       LVM_VG_NAME
	      The  Volume  Group  name	that is assumed for any reference to a
	      Logical Volume that doesn't specify a path.  Not set by default.

       LVM_LVMETAD_PIDFILE
	      Path to the file that stores the lvmetad process ID.

       LVM_LVMETAD_SOCKET
	      Path to the socket used to communicate with lvmetad.

       LVM_LVMPOLLD_PIDFILE
	      Path to the file that stores the lvmpolld process ID.

       LVM_LVMPOLLD_SOCKET
	      Path to the socket used to communicate with lvmpolld..

       LVM_LOG_FILE_EPOCH
	      A string of up to 32 letters appended to the  log	 filename  and
	      followed	by  the	 process ID and a startup timestamp using this
	      format string "_%s_%d_%llu".  When set, each process logs	 to  a
	      separate file.

       LVM_LOG_FILE_MAX_LINES
	      If  more than this number of lines are sent to the log file, the
	      command gets aborted.  Automated tests  use  this	 to  terminate
	      looping commands.

       LVM_EXPECTED_EXIT_STATUS
	      The  status  anticipated	when  the  process exits.  Use ">N" to
	      match any status greater than N.	 If  the  actual  exit	status
	      matches	and   a	  log	file  got  produced,  it  is  deleted.
	      LVM_LOG_FILE_EPOCH and LVM_EXPECTED_EXIT_STATUS  together	 allow
	      automated test scripts to discard uninteresting log data.

       LVM_SUPPRESS_LOCKING_FAILURE_MESSAGES
	      Used to suppress warning messages when the configured locking is
	      known to be unavailable.

       DM_ABORT_ON_INTERNAL_ERRORS
	      Abort processing if the code detects a non-fatal internal error.

       DM_DISABLE_UDEV
	      Avoid interaction with udev.  LVM will manage the relevant nodes
	      in /dev directly.

FILES
       /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
       $HOME/.lvm_history

SEE ALSO
       lvm.conf(5),    lvmcache(7),    lvmthin(7),    clvmd(8),	   dmsetup(8),
       lvchange(8),  lvcreate(8),  lvdisplay(8),  lvextend(8),	 lvmchange(8),
       lvmconfig(8),  lvmdiskscan(8),  lvreduce(8),  lvremove(8), lvrename(8),
       lvresize(8),  lvs(8),  lvscan(8),  pvchange(8),	pvck(8),  pvcreate(8),
       pvdisplay(8),	 pvmove(8),	pvremove(8),	 pvs(8),    pvscan(8),
       vgcfgbackup(8),	vgchange(8),   vgck(8),	  vgconvert(8),	  vgcreate(8),
       vgdisplay(8),  vgextend(8),  vgimport(8), vgimportclone(8), vgmerge(8),
       vgmknodes(8), vgreduce(8), vgremove(8), vgrename(8), vgs(8), vgscan(8),
       vgsplit(8), readline(3)



Sistina Software UKLVM TOOLS 2.02.166(2)-RHEL7 (2016-11-16)		LVM(8)