# LVCHANGE(8) - man - phpMan

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## NAME
       lvchange - Change the attributes of logical volume(s)

## SYNOPSIS
       **lvchange** _option_args_ _position_args_
           [ _option_args_ ]

        **-a**|**--activate** **y**|**n**|**ay**
           **--activationmode** **partial**|**degraded**|**complete**
           **--addtag** _Tag_
           **--alloc** **contiguous**|**cling**|**cling**___**by**___**tags**|**normal**|**anywhere**|**inherit**
        **-A**|**--autobackup** **y**|**n**
           **--cachemode** **writethrough**|**writeback**|**passthrough**
           **--cachepolicy** _String_
           **--cachesettings** _String_
           **--commandprofile** _String_
           **--compression** **y**|**n**
           **--config** _String_
        **-C**|**--contiguous** **y**|**n**
        **-d**|**--debug**
           **--deduplication** **y**|**n**
           **--deltag** _Tag_
           **--detachprofile**
           **--discards** **passdown**|**nopassdown**|**ignore**
           **--driverloaded** **y**|**n**
           **--errorwhenfull** **y**|**n**
        **-f**|**--force**
        **-h**|**--help**
        **-K**|**--ignoreactivationskip**
           **--ignorelockingfailure**
           **--ignoremonitoring**
           **--lockopt** _String_
           **--longhelp**
        **-j**|**--major** _Number_
           **--[raid]maxrecoveryrate** _Size_[k|UNIT]
           **--metadataprofile** _String_
           **--minor** _Number_
           **--[raid]minrecoveryrate** _Size_[k|UNIT]
           **--monitor** **y**|**n**
           **--nolocking**
           **--noudevsync**
        **-P**|**--partial**
        **-p**|**--permission** **rw**|**r**
        **-M**|**--persistent** **y**|**n**
           **--poll** **y**|**n**
           **--profile** _String_
        **-q**|**--quiet**
        **-r**|**--readahead** **auto**|**none**|_Number_
           **--readonly**
           **--rebuild** _PV_
           **--refresh**
           **--reportformat** **basic**|**json**
           **--resync**
        **-S**|**--select** _String_
        **-k**|**--setactivationskip** **y**|**n**
           **--[raid]syncaction** **check**|**repair**
           **--sysinit**
        **-t**|**--test**
        **-v**|**--verbose**
           **--version**
           **--[raid]writebehind** _Number_
           **--[raid]writemostly** _PV_[**:t**|**n**|**y**]
        **-y**|**--yes**
        **-Z**|**--zero** **y**|**n**

## DESCRIPTION
       lvchange  changes  LV attributes in the VG, changes LV activation in the kernel, and includes
       other utilities for LV maintenance.

## USAGE
       Change a general LV attribute.
       For options listed in parentheses, any one is
       required, after which the others are optional.

### lvchange
           ( **-C**|**--contiguous** **y**|**n**,
             **-p**|**--permission** **rw**|**r**,
             **-r**|**--readahead** **auto**|**none**|_Number_,
             **-k**|**--setactivationskip** **y**|**n**,
             **-Z**|**--zero** **y**|**n**,
             **-M**|**--persistent** **n**,
                **--addtag** _Tag_,
                **--deltag** _Tag_,
                **--alloc** **contiguous**|**cling**|**cling**___**by**___**tags**|**normal**|**anywhere**|**inherit**,
                **--compression** **y**|**n**,
                **--deduplication** **y**|**n**,
                **--detachprofile**,
                **--metadataprofile** _String_,
                **--profile** _String_,
                **--errorwhenfull** **y**|**n**,
                **--discards** **passdown**|**nopassdown**|**ignore**,
                **--cachemode** **writethrough**|**writeback**|**passthrough**,
                **--cachepolicy** _String_,
                **--cachesettings** _String_,
                **--[raid]minrecoveryrate** _Size_[k|UNIT],
                **--[raid]maxrecoveryrate** _Size_[k|UNIT],
                **--[raid]writebehind** _Number_,
                **--[raid]writemostly** _PV_[**:t**|**n**|**y**] )
            _VG_|_LV_|_Tag_|_Select_ ...
           [ **-a**|**--activate** **y**|**n**|**ay** ]
           [    **--poll** **y**|**n** ]
           [    **--monitor** **y**|**n** ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
       -

       Resyncronize a mirror or raid LV.
       Use to reset 'R' attribute on a not initially synchronized LV.

       **lvchange** **--resync** _VG_|_LV_mirror_raid_|_Tag_|_Select_ ...
           [ **-a**|**--activate** **y**|**n**|**ay** ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
       -

       Resynchronize or check a raid LV.

       **lvchange** **--syncaction** **check**|**repair** _VG_|_LV_raid_|_Tag_|_Select_ ...
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
       -

       Reconstruct data on specific PVs of a raid LV.

       **lvchange** **--rebuild** _PV_ _VG_|_LV_raid_|_Tag_|_Select_ ...
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
       -

       Activate or deactivate an LV.

       **lvchange** **-a**|**--activate** **y**|**n**|**ay** _VG_|_LV_|_Tag_|_Select_ ...
           [ **-P**|**--partial** ]
           [ **-K**|**--ignoreactivationskip** ]
           [    **--activationmode** **partial**|**degraded**|**complete** ]
           [    **--poll** **y**|**n** ]
           [    **--monitor** **y**|**n** ]
           [    **--ignorelockingfailure** ]
           [    **--sysinit** ]
           [    **--readonly** ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
       -

       Reactivate an LV using the latest metadata.

       **lvchange** **--refresh** _VG_|_LV_|_Tag_|_Select_ ...
           [ **-P**|**--partial** ]
           [    **--activationmode** **partial**|**degraded**|**complete** ]
           [    **--poll** **y**|**n** ]
           [    **--monitor** **y**|**n** ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
       -

       Start or stop monitoring an LV from dmeventd.

       **lvchange** **--monitor** **y**|**n** _VG_|_LV_|_Tag_|_Select_ ...
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
       -

       Start or stop processing an LV conversion.

       **lvchange** **--poll** **y**|**n** _VG_|_LV_|_Tag_|_Select_ ...
           [    **--monitor** **y**|**n** ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
       -

       Make the minor device number persistent for an LV.

       **lvchange** **-M**|**--persistent** **y** **--minor** _Number_ _LV_
           [ **-j**|**--major** _Number_ ]
           [ **-a**|**--activate** **y**|**n**|**ay** ]
           [    **--poll** **y**|**n** ]
           [    **--monitor** **y**|**n** ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
       -

       Common options for command:
           [ **-A**|**--autobackup** **y**|**n** ]
           [ **-f**|**--force** ]
           [ **-S**|**--select** _String_ ]
           [    **--ignoremonitoring** ]
           [    **--noudevsync** ]
           [    **--reportformat** **basic**|**json** ]

       Common options for lvm:
           [ **-d**|**--debug** ]
           [ **-h**|**--help** ]
           [ **-q**|**--quiet** ]
           [ **-t**|**--test** ]
           [ **-v**|**--verbose** ]
           [ **-y**|**--yes** ]
           [    **--commandprofile** _String_ ]
           [    **--config** _String_ ]
           [    **--driverloaded** **y**|**n** ]
           [    **--lockopt** _String_ ]
           [    **--longhelp** ]
           [    **--nolocking** ]
           [    **--profile** _String_ ]
           [    **--version** ]

## OPTIONS
### -a --activate
              Change the active state of LVs.  An active LV can be used through a block device, al‐
              lowing data on the LV to be accessed.  **y** makes LVs active, or available.  **n** makes LVs
              inactive, or unavailable.  The block device for the LV is added or removed from the
              system using device-mapper in the kernel.  A symbolic link /dev/VGName/LVName pointing
              to the device node is also added/removed.  All software and scripts should access the
              device through the symbolic link and present this as the name of the device.  The lo‐
              cation and name of the underlying device node may depend on the distribution, configu‐
              ration (e.g. udev), or release version.  **ay** specifies autoactivation, in which case an
              LV is activated only if it matches an item in lvm.conf activation/auto_activation_vol‐
              ume_list.  If the list is not set, all LVs are considered to match, and if if the list
              is set but empty, no LVs match.  Autoactivation should be used during system boot to
              make it possible to select which LVs should be automatically activated by the system.
              See [**lvmlockd**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmlockd/8/markdown) for more information about activation options **ey** and **sy** for shared
              VGs.

       **--activationmode** **partial**|**degraded**|**complete**
              Determines if LV activation is allowed when PVs are missing, e.g. because of a device
              failure.  **complete** only allows LVs with no missing PVs to be activated, and is the
              most restrictive mode.  **degraded** allows RAID LVs with missing PVs to be activated.
              (This does not include the "mirror" type, see "raid1" instead.)  **partial** allows any LV
              with missing PVs to be activated, and should only be used for recovery or repair.  For
              default, see lvm.conf/activation_mode.  See [**lvmraid**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmraid/7/markdown) for more information.

       **--addtag** _Tag_
              Adds a tag to a PV, VG or LV. This option can be repeated to add multiple tags at
              once. See [**lvm**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm/8/markdown) for information about tags.

       **--alloc** **contiguous**|**cling**|**cling**___**by**___**tags**|**normal**|**anywhere**|**inherit**
              Determines the allocation policy when a command needs to allocate Physical Extents
              (PEs) from the VG. Each VG and LV has an allocation policy which can be changed with
              vgchange/lvchange, or overriden on the command line.  **normal** applies common sense
              rules such as not placing parallel stripes on the same PV.  **inherit** applies the VG
              policy to an LV.  **contiguous** requires new PEs be placed adjacent to existing PEs.
              **cling** places new PEs on the same PV as existing PEs in the same stripe of the LV.  If
              there are sufficient PEs for an allocation, but normal does not use them, **anywhere**
              will use them even if it reduces performance, e.g. by placing two stripes on the same
              PV.  Optional positional PV args on the command line can also be used to limit which
              PVs the command will use for allocation.  See [**lvm**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm/8/markdown) for more information about allo‐
              cation.

### -A --autobackup
              Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically after a change.  Enabling this
              is strongly advised! See [**vgcfgbackup**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgcfgbackup/8/markdown) for more information.

       **--cachemode** **writethrough**|**writeback**|**passthrough**
              Specifies when writes to a cache LV should be considered complete.  **writeback** consid‐
              ers a write complete as soon as it is stored in the cache pool.  **writethough** considers
              a write complete only when it has been stored in both the cache pool and on the origin
              LV.  While writethrough may be slower for writes, it is more resilient if something
              should happen to a device associated with the cache pool LV. With **passthrough**, all
              reads are served from the origin LV (all reads miss the cache) and all writes are for‐
              warded to the origin LV; additionally, write hits cause cache block invalidates. See
              [**lvmcache**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmcache/7/markdown) for more information.

       **--cachepolicy** _String_
              Specifies the cache policy for a cache LV.  See [**lvmcache**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmcache/7/markdown) for more information.

       **--cachesettings** _String_
              Specifies tunable values for a cache LV in "Key = Value" form.  Repeat this option to
              specify multiple values.  (The default values should usually be adequate.)  The spe‐
              cial string value **default** switches settings back to their default kernel values and
              removes them from the list of settings stored in LVM metadata.  See [**lvmcache**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmcache/7/markdown) for
              more information.

       **--commandprofile** _String_
              The command profile to use for command configuration.  See [**lvm.conf**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm.conf/5/markdown) for more infor‐
              mation about profiles.

       **--compression** **y**|**n**
              Controls whether compression is enabled or disable for VDO volume.  See [**lvmvdo**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmvdo/7/markdown) for
              more information about VDO usage.

       **--config** _String_
              Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf settings.  The String arg
              uses the same format as lvm.conf, or may use section/field syntax.  See [**lvm.conf**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm.conf/5/markdown)
              for more information about config.

### -C --contiguous
              Sets or resets the contiguous allocation policy for LVs.  Default is no contiguous al‐
              location based on a next free principle.  It is only possible to change a non-contigu‐
              ous allocation policy to contiguous if all of the allocated physical extents in the LV
              are already contiguous.

### -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).

       **--deduplication** **y**|**n**
              Controls whether deduplication is enabled or disable for VDO volume.  See [**lvmvdo**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmvdo/7/markdown)
              for more information about VDO usage.

       **--deltag** _Tag_
              Deletes a tag from a PV, VG or LV. This option can be repeated to delete multiple tags
              at once. See [**lvm**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm/8/markdown) for information about tags.

### --detachprofile
              Detaches a metadata profile from a VG or LV.  See [**lvm.conf**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm.conf/5/markdown) for more information
              about profiles.

       **--discards** **passdown**|**nopassdown**|**ignore**
              Specifies how the device-mapper thin pool layer in the kernel should handle discards.
              **ignore** causes the thin pool to ignore discards.  **nopassdown** causes the thin pool to
              process discards itself to allow reuse of unneeded extents in the thin pool.  **passdown**
              causes the thin pool to process discards itself (like nopassdown) and pass the dis‐
              cards to the underlying device.  See [**lvmthin**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmthin/7/markdown) for more information.

       **--driverloaded** **y**|**n**
              If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper.  For testing and de‐
              bugging.

       **--errorwhenfull** **y**|**n**
              Specifies thin pool behavior when data space is exhausted.  When yes, device-mapper
              will immediately return an error when a thin pool is full and an I/O request requires
              space.  When no, device-mapper will queue these I/O requests for a period of time to
              allow the thin pool to be extended.  Errors are returned if no space is available af‐
              ter the timeout.  (Also see dm-thin-pool kernel module option no_space_timeout.)  See
              [**lvmthin**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmthin/7/markdown) for more information.

### -f --force
              Override various checks, confirmations and protections.  Use with extreme caution.

### -h --help
              Display help text.

### -K --ignoreactivationskip
              Ignore the "activation skip" LV flag during activation to allow LVs with the flag set
              to be activated.

### --ignorelockingfailure
              Allows a command to continue with read-only metadata operations after locking fail‐
              ures.

### --ignoremonitoring
              Do not interact with dmeventd unless --monitor is specified.  Do not use this if
              dmeventd is already monitoring a device.

       **--lockopt** _String_
              Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd.  See [**lvmlockd**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmlockd/8/markdown) for more informa‐
              tion.

### --longhelp
              Display long help text.

### -j --major
              Sets the major number of an LV block device.

       **--[raid]maxrecoveryrate** _Size_[k|UNIT]
              Sets the maximum recovery rate for a RAID LV.  The rate value is an amount of data per
              second for each device in the array.  Setting the rate to 0 means it will be un‐
              bounded.  See [**lvmraid**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmraid/7/markdown) for more information.

       **--metadataprofile** _String_
              The metadata profile to use for command configuration.  See [**lvm.conf**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm.conf/5/markdown) for more in‐
              formation about profiles.

       **--minor** _Number_
              Sets the minor number of an LV block device.

       **--[raid]minrecoveryrate** _Size_[k|UNIT]
              Sets the minimum recovery rate for a RAID LV.  The rate value is an amount of data per
              second for each device in the array.  Setting the rate to 0 means it will be un‐
              bounded.  See [**lvmraid**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmraid/7/markdown) for more information.

       **--monitor** **y**|**n**
              Start (yes) or stop (no) monitoring an LV with dmeventd.  dmeventd monitors kernel
              events for an LV, and performs automated maintenance for the LV in reponse to specific
              events.  See [**dmeventd**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dmeventd/8/markdown) for more information.

### --nolocking
              Disable locking.

### --noudevsync
              Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for notification from udev.
              It will continue irrespective of any possible udev processing in the background. Only
              use this if udev is not running or has rules that ignore the devices LVM creates.

### -P --partial
              Commands will do their best to activate LVs with missing PV extents.  Missing extents
              may be replaced with error or zero segments according to the lvm.conf miss‐
              ing_stripe_filler setting.  Metadata may not be changed with this option.

### -p --permission
              Set access permission to read only **r** or read and write **rw**.

### -M --persistent
              When yes, makes the specified minor number persistent.

       **--poll** **y**|**n**
              When yes, start the background transformation of an LV.  An incomplete transformation,
              e.g. pvmove or lvconvert interrupted by reboot or crash, can be restarted from the
              last checkpoint with --poll y.  When no, background transformation of an LV will not
              occur, and the transformation will not complete. It may not be appropriate to immedi‐
              ately poll an LV after activation, in which case --poll n can be used to defer polling
              until a later --poll y command.

       **--profile** _String_
              An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on the command.

### -q --quiet
              Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose.  Repeat once to
              also suppress any prompts with answer 'no'.

### -r --readahead
              Sets read ahead sector count of an LV.  **auto** is the default which allows the kernel to
              choose a suitable value automatically.  **none** is equivalent to zero.

### --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. No attempt will be made to commu‐
              nicate with the device-mapper kernel driver, so this option is unable to report
              whether or not LVs are actually in use.

       **--rebuild** _PV_
              Selects a PV to rebuild in a raid LV. Multiple PVs can be rebuilt by repeating this
              option.  Use this option in place of --resync or --syncaction repair when the PVs with
              corrupted data are known, and their data should be reconstructed rather than recon‐
              structing default (rotating) data.  See [**lvmraid**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmraid/7/markdown) for more information.

### --refresh
              If the LV is active, reload its metadata.  This is not necessary in normal operation,
              but may be useful if something has gone wrong, or if some form of manual LV sharing is
              being used.

       **--reportformat** **basic**|**json**
              Overrides current output format for reports which is defined globally by the re‐
              port/output_format setting in lvm.conf.  **basic** is the original format with columns and
              rows.  If there is more than one report per command, each report is prefixed with the
              report name for identification. **json** produces report output in JSON format. See **lvmre**‐‐
              [**port**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/port/7/markdown) for more information.

### --resync
              Initiates mirror synchronization. Synchronization generally happens automatically, but
              this option forces it to run.  Also see --rebuild to synchronize a specific PV.  Dur‐
              ing synchronization, data is read from the primary mirror device and copied to the
              others. This can take considerable time, during which the LV is without a complete re‐
              dundant copy of the data.  See [**lvmraid**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmraid/7/markdown) for more information.

### -S --select
              Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified criteria.  The criteria
              syntax is described by **--select** **help** and [**lvmreport**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmreport/7/markdown).  For reporting commands, one
              row is displayed for each object matching the criteria.  See **--options** **help** for se‐
              lectable object fields.  Rows can be displayed with an additional "selected" field (-o
              selected) showing 1 if the row matches the selection and 0 otherwise.  For non-report‐
              ing commands which process LVM entities, the selection is used to choose items to
              process.

### -k --setactivationskip
              Persistently sets (yes) or clears (no) the "activation skip" flag on an LV.  An LV
              with this flag set is not activated unless the --ignoreactivationskip option is used
              by the activation command.  This flag is set by default on new thin snapshot LVs.  The
              flag is not applied to deactivation.  The current value of the flag is indicated in
              the lvs lv_attr bits.

       **--[raid]syncaction** **check**|**repair**
              Initiate different types of RAID synchronization.  This causes the RAID LV to read all
              data and parity blocks in the array and check for discrepancies (mismatches between
              mirrors or incorrect parity values).  **check** will count but not correct discrepancies.
              **repair** will correct discrepancies.  See lvs for reporting discrepancies found or re‐
              paired.

### --sysinit
              Indicates that vgchange/lvchange is being invoked from early system initialisation
              scripts (e.g. rc.sysinit or an initrd), before writable filesystems are available. As
              such, some functionality needs to be disabled and this option acts as a shortcut which
              selects an appropriate set of options. Currently, this is equivalent to using --ig‐
              norelockingfailure, --ignoremonitoring, --poll n, and setting env var LVM_SUP‐
              PRESS_LOCKING_FAILURE_MESSAGES.  vgchange/lvchange skip autoactivation, and defer to
              pvscan autoactivation.

### -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 read‐
              ing back metadata it believes has changed but hasn't.

### -v --verbose
              Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the detail of messages sent to
              stdout and stderr.

### --version
              Display version information.

       **--[raid]writebehind** _Number_
              The maximum number of outstanding writes that are allowed to devices in a RAID1 LV
              that is marked write-mostly.  Once this value is exceeded, writes become synchronous
              (i.e. all writes to the constituent devices must complete before the array signals the
              write has completed). Setting the value to zero clears the preference and allows the
              system to choose the value arbitrarily.

       **--[raid]writemostly** _PV_[**:t**|**n**|**y**]
              Mark a device in a RAID1 LV as write-mostly.  All reads to these drives will be
              avoided unless absolutely necessary. This keeps the number of I/Os to the drive to a
              minimum. The default behavior is to set the write-mostly attribute for the specified
              PV.  It is also possible to remove the write-mostly flag by adding the suffix **:n** at
              the end of the PV name, or to toggle the value with the suffix **:t**. Repeat this option
              to change the attribute on multiple PVs.

### -y --yes
              Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the answer yes. Use
              with extreme caution.  (For automatic no, see -qq.)

### -Z --zero
              Set zeroing mode for thin pool. Note: already provisioned blocks from pool in non-zero
              mode are not cleared in unwritten parts when setting --zero y.

## VARIABLES
       _VG_
              Volume Group name.  See [**lvm**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm/8/markdown) for valid names.

       _LV_
              Logical Volume name.  See [**lvm**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm/8/markdown) for valid names.  An LV positional arg generally  in‐
              cludes  the VG name and LV name, e.g. VG/LV.  LV followed by _<type> indicates that an
              LV of the given type is required. (raid represents raid<N> type)

       _Tag_
              Tag name.  See [**lvm**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm/8/markdown) for information about tag names and using tags in place of a VG,
              LV or PV.

       _Select_
              Select  indicates  that a required positional parameter can be omitted if the **--select**
              option is used.  No arg appears in this position.

       _String_
              See the option description for information about the string content.

       _Size_[UNIT]
              Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit.  Input units are always treated
              as base two values, regardless of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024.
              The default input unit is specified by letter, followed  by  |UNIT.   UNIT  represents
              other  possible  input  units:  **bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE**.  b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512
              bytes, k|K is KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB, p|P is PiB, e|E is EiB.   (This
              should  not  be  confused  with the output control --units, where capital letters mean
              multiple of 1000.)

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       See [**lvm**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm/8/markdown) for information about environment variables used by lvm.  For example, LVM_VG_NAME
       can generally be substituted for a required VG parameter.

## EXAMPLES
       Change LV permission to read-only:

### lvchange -pr vg00/lvol1

## SEE ALSO
       [**lvm**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm/8/markdown) [**lvm.conf**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm.conf/5/markdown) [**lvmconfig**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmconfig/8/markdown)

       [**pvchange**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvchange/8/markdown)  [**pvck**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvck/8/markdown)  [**pvcreate**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvcreate/8/markdown)  [**pvdisplay**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvdisplay/8/markdown) [**pvmove**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvmove/8/markdown) [**pvremove**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvremove/8/markdown) [**pvresize**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvresize/8/markdown) [**pvs**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvs/8/markdown) **pvs**‐‐
       [**can**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/can/8/markdown)

       [**vgcfgbackup**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgcfgbackup/8/markdown) [**vgcfgrestore**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgcfgrestore/8/markdown) [**vgchange**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgchange/8/markdown) [**vgck**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgck/8/markdown) [**vgcreate**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgcreate/8/markdown) [**vgconvert**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgconvert/8/markdown) [**vgdisplay**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgdisplay/8/markdown)  **vg**‐‐
       [**export**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/export/8/markdown)  [**vgextend**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgextend/8/markdown) [**vgimport**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgimport/8/markdown) [**vgimportclone**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgimportclone/8/markdown) [**vgmerge**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgmerge/8/markdown) [**vgmknodes**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgmknodes/8/markdown) [**vgreduce**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgreduce/8/markdown) **vgre**‐‐
       [**move**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/move/8/markdown) [**vgrename**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgrename/8/markdown) [**vgs**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgs/8/markdown) [**vgscan**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgscan/8/markdown) [**vgsplit**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgsplit/8/markdown)

       [**lvcreate**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvcreate/8/markdown) [**lvchange**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvchange/8/markdown) [**lvconvert**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvconvert/8/markdown) [**lvdisplay**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvdisplay/8/markdown) [**lvextend**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvextend/8/markdown) [**lvreduce**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvreduce/8/markdown)  [**lvremove**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvremove/8/markdown)  **lvre**‐‐
       [**name**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/name/8/markdown) [**lvresize**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvresize/8/markdown) [**lvs**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvs/8/markdown) [**lvscan**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvscan/8/markdown)

       [**lvm-fullreport**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm-fullreport/8/markdown) [**lvm-lvpoll**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm-lvpoll/8/markdown) [**lvm2-activation-generator**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm2-activation-generator/8/markdown) [**blkdeactivate**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/blkdeactivate/8/markdown) [**lvmdump**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmdump/8/markdown)

       [**dmeventd**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dmeventd/8/markdown) [**lvmpolld**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmpolld/8/markdown) [**lvmlockd**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmlockd/8/markdown) [**lvmlockctl**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmlockctl/8/markdown) [**cmirrord**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/cmirrord/8/markdown) [**lvmdbusd**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmdbusd/8/markdown)

       [**lvmsystemid**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmsystemid/7/markdown) [**lvmreport**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmreport/7/markdown) [**lvmraid**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmraid/7/markdown) [**lvmthin**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmthin/7/markdown) [**lvmcache**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmcache/7/markdown)



Red Hat, Inc.                     LVM TOOLS [2.03.11(2)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/2.03.11/2/markdown) (2021-01-08)                      [LVCHANGE(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/LVCHANGE/8/markdown)
