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    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "lvs",
    "section": "8",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvs/8/json",
    "generated": "2026-05-30T07:09:04Z",
    "synopsis": "",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "lvs - Display information about logical volumes\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "lvs",
                    "content": "[ optionargs ]\n[ positionargs ]\n"
                }
            ]
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "lvs produces formatted output about LVs.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "USAGE": {
            "content": "",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "lvs",
                    "content": "[ -H|--history ]\n[ -a|--all ]\n[ -o|--options String ]\n[ -S|--select String ]\n[ -O|--sort String ]\n[    --segments ]\n[    --aligned ]\n[    --binary ]\n[    --configreport log|vg|lv|pv|pvseg|seg ]\n[    --foreign ]\n[    --ignorelockingfailure ]\n[    --logonly ]\n[    --nameprefixes ]\n[    --noheadings ]\n[    --nosuffix ]\n[    --readonly ]\n[    --reportformat basic|json ]\n[    --rows ]\n[    --separator String ]\n[    --shared ]\n[    --unbuffered ]\n[    --units r|R|h|H|b|B|s|S|k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T|p|P|e|E ]\n[    --unquoted ]\n[ COMMONOPTIONS ]\n[ VG|LV|Tag ... ]\n\nCommon options for lvm:\n[ -d|--debug ]\n[ -h|--help ]\n[ -q|--quiet ]\n[ -t|--test ]\n[ -v|--verbose ]\n[ -y|--yes ]\n[    --commandprofile String ]\n[    --config String ]\n[    --driverloaded y|n ]\n[    --lockopt String ]\n[    --longhelp ]\n[    --nolocking ]\n[    --profile String ]\n[    --version ]\n"
                }
            ]
        },
        "OPTIONS": {
            "content": "",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "--aligned",
                    "content": "Use with --separator to align the output columns\n",
                    "long": "--aligned"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-a --all",
                    "content": "Show information about internal LVs.  These are components of normal LVs, such as mir‐\nrors, which are not independently accessible, e.g. not mountable.\n",
                    "flag": "-a",
                    "long": "--all"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--binary",
                    "content": "Use binary values \"0\" or \"1\" instead of descriptive literal values for columns that\nhave exactly two valid values to report (not counting the \"unknown\" value which de‐\nnotes that the value could not be determined).\n\n--commandprofile String\nThe command profile to use for command configuration.  See lvm.conf(5) for more infor‐\nmation about profiles.\n\n--config String\nConfig settings for the command. These override lvm.conf settings.  The String arg\nuses the same format as lvm.conf, or may use section/field syntax.  See lvm.conf(5)\nfor more information about config.\n\n--configreport log|vg|lv|pv|pvseg|seg\nSee lvmreport(7).\n",
                    "long": "--binary"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-d --debug",
                    "content": "Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail of messages sent to\nthe log file and/or syslog (if configured).\n\n--driverloaded y|n\nIf set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper.  For testing and de‐\nbugging.\n",
                    "flag": "-d",
                    "long": "--debug"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--foreign",
                    "content": "Report/display foreign VGs that would otherwise be skipped.  See lvmsystemid(7) for\nmore information about foreign VGs.\n",
                    "long": "--foreign"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-h --help",
                    "content": "Display help text.\n",
                    "flag": "-h",
                    "long": "--help"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-H --history",
                    "content": "Include historical LVs in the output.  (This has no effect unless LVs were removed\nwhile lvm.conf metadata/recordlvshistory was enabled.\n",
                    "flag": "-H",
                    "long": "--history"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--ignorelockingfailure",
                    "content": "Allows a command to continue with read-only metadata operations after locking fail‐\nures.\n\n--lockopt String\nUsed to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd.  See lvmlockd(8) for more informa‐\ntion.\n",
                    "long": "--ignorelockingfailure"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--logonly",
                    "content": "Suppress command report and display only log report.\n",
                    "long": "--logonly"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--longhelp",
                    "content": "Display long help text.\n",
                    "long": "--longhelp"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--nameprefixes",
                    "content": "Add an \"LVM2\" prefix plus the field name to the output. Useful with --noheadings to\nproduce a list of field=value pairs that can be used to set environment variables (for\nexample, in udev rules).\n",
                    "long": "--nameprefixes"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--noheadings",
                    "content": "Suppress the headings line that is normally the first line of output.  Useful if grep‐\nping the output.\n",
                    "long": "--noheadings"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--nolocking",
                    "content": "Disable locking.\n",
                    "long": "--nolocking"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--nosuffix",
                    "content": "Suppress the suffix on output sizes. Use with --units (except h and H) if processing\nthe output.\n",
                    "long": "--nosuffix"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-o --options",
                    "content": "Comma-separated, ordered list of fields to display in columns.  String arg syntax is:\n[+|-|#]Field1[,Field2 ...]  The prefix + will append the specified fields to the de‐\nfault fields, - will remove the specified fields from the default fields, and # will\ncompact specified fields (removing them when empty for all rows.)  Use -o help to view\nthe list of all available fields.  Use separate lists of fields to add, remove or com‐\npact by repeating the -o option: -o+field1,field2 -o-field3,field4 -o#field5.  These\nlists are evaluated from left to right.  Use field name lvall to view all LV fields,\nvgall all VG fields, pvall all PV fields, pvsegall all PV segment fields, segall\nall LV segment fields, and pvsegall all PV segment columns.  See the lvm.conf report\nsection for more config options.  See lvmreport(7) for more information about report‐\ning.\n\n--profile String\nAn alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on the command.\n",
                    "flag": "-o",
                    "long": "--options"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-q --quiet",
                    "content": "Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose.  Repeat once to\nalso suppress any prompts with answer 'no'.\n",
                    "flag": "-q",
                    "long": "--quiet"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--readonly",
                    "content": "Run the command in a special read-only mode which will read on-disk metadata without\nneeding to take any locks. This can be used to peek inside metadata used by a virtual\nmachine image while the virtual machine is running. No attempt will be made to commu‐\nnicate with the device-mapper kernel driver, so this option is unable to report\nwhether or not LVs are actually in use.\n\n--reportformat basic|json\nOverrides current output format for reports which is defined globally by the re‐\nport/outputformat setting in lvm.conf.  basic is the original format with columns and\nrows.  If there is more than one report per command, each report is prefixed with the\nreport name for identification. json produces report output in JSON format. See lvmre‐‐\nport(7) for more information.\n",
                    "long": "--readonly"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--rows",
                    "content": "Output columns as rows.\n",
                    "long": "--rows"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--segments",
                    "content": "Use default columns that emphasize segment information.\n",
                    "long": "--segments"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-S --select",
                    "content": "Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified criteria.  The criteria\nsyntax is described by --select help and lvmreport(7).  For reporting commands, one\nrow is displayed for each object matching the criteria.  See --options help for se‐\nlectable object fields.  Rows can be displayed with an additional \"selected\" field (-o\nselected) showing 1 if the row matches the selection and 0 otherwise.  For non-report‐\ning commands which process LVM entities, the selection is used to choose items to\nprocess.\n\n--separator String\nString to use to separate each column. Useful if grepping the output.\n",
                    "flag": "-S",
                    "long": "--select"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--shared",
                    "content": "Report/display shared VGs that would otherwise be skipped when lvmlockd is not being\nused on the host.  See lvmlockd(8) for more information about shared VGs.\n",
                    "long": "--shared"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-O --sort",
                    "content": "Comma-separated ordered list of columns to sort by. Replaces the default selection.\nPrecede any column with - for a reverse sort on that column.\n",
                    "flag": "-O",
                    "long": "--sort"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-t --test",
                    "content": "Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata.  This is implemented by disabling\nall metadata writing but nevertheless returning success to the calling function. This\nmay lead to unusual error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool relies on read‐\ning back metadata it believes has changed but hasn't.\n",
                    "flag": "-t",
                    "long": "--test"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--unbuffered",
                    "content": "Produce output immediately without sorting or aligning the columns properly.\n\n--units r|R|h|H|b|B|s|S|k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T|p|P|e|E\nAll sizes are output in these units: human-(r)eadable with '<' rounding indicator,\n(h)uman-readable, (b)ytes, (s)ectors, (k)ilobytes, (m)egabytes, (g)igabytes, (t)er‐\nabytes, (p)etabytes, (e)xabytes.  Capitalise to use multiples of 1000 (S.I.) instead\nof 1024.  Custom units can be specified, e.g. --units 3M.\n",
                    "long": "--unbuffered"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--unquoted",
                    "content": "When used with --nameprefixes, output values in the field=value pairs are not quoted.\n",
                    "long": "--unquoted"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-v --verbose",
                    "content": "Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the detail of messages sent to\nstdout and stderr.\n",
                    "flag": "-v",
                    "long": "--verbose"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--version",
                    "content": "Display version information.\n",
                    "long": "--version"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-y --yes",
                    "content": "Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the answer yes. Use\nwith extreme caution.  (For automatic no, see -qq.)\n",
                    "flag": "-y",
                    "long": "--yes"
                }
            ]
        },
        "VARIABLES": {
            "content": "VG\nVolume Group name.  See lvm(8) for valid names.\n\nLV\nLogical Volume name.  See lvm(8) for valid names.  An LV positional arg generally  in‐\ncludes the VG name and LV name, e.g. VG/LV.\n\nTag\nTag name.  See lvm(8) for information about tag names and using tags in place of a VG,\nLV or PV.\n\nString\nSee the option description for information about the string content.\n\nSize[UNIT]\nSize is an input number that accepts an optional unit.  Input units are always treated\nas base two values, regardless of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024.\nThe default input unit is specified by letter, followed  by  |UNIT.   UNIT  represents\nother  possible  input  units:  bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE.  b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512\nbytes, 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\nshould  not  be  confused  with the output control --units, where capital letters mean\nmultiple of 1000.)\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES": {
            "content": "See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm.  For example, LVMVGNAME\ncan generally be substituted for a required VG parameter.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "NOTES": {
            "content": "The lvattr bits are:\n\n1  Volume type: (C)ache, (m)irrored, (M)irrored without initial sync, (o)rigin, (O)rigin with\nmerging snapshot, (r)aid, (R)aid without initial  sync,  (s)napshot,  merging  (S)napshot,\n(p)vmove,  (v)irtual,  mirror  or raid (i)mage, mirror or raid (I)mage out-of-sync, mirror\n(l)og device, under (c)onversion, thin (V)olume, (t)hin  pool,  (T)hin  pool  data,  v(d)o\npool, v(D)o pool data, raid or pool m(e)tadata or pool metadata spare.\n\n2  Permissions: (w)riteable, (r)ead-only, (R)ead-only activation of non-read-only volume\n\n3  Allocation policy:  (a)nywhere, (c)ontiguous, (i)nherited, c(l)ing, (n)ormal This is capi‐\ntalised if the volume is currently locked against allocation changes, for  example  during\npvmove(8).\n\n4  fixed (m)inor\n\n5  State:  (a)ctive, (h)istorical, (s)uspended, (I)nvalid snapshot, invalid (S)uspended snap‐\nshot, snapshot (m)erge failed, suspended snapshot (M)erge failed, mapped (d)evice  present\nwithout  tables,  mapped  device  present with (i)nactive table, thin-pool (c)heck needed,\nsuspended thin-pool (C)heck needed, (X) unknown\n\n6  device (o)pen, (X) unknown\n\n7  Target type: (C)ache, (m)irror, (r)aid, (s)napshot, (t)hin,  (u)nknown,  (v)irtual.   This\ngroups  logical volumes related to the same kernel target together.  So, for example, mir‐\nror images, mirror logs as well as mirrors themselves appear as (m) if they use the origi‐\nnal  device-mapper  mirror  kernel  driver; whereas the raid equivalents using the md raid\nkernel driver all appear as (r).  Snapshots using the original device-mapper driver appear\nas (s); whereas snapshots of thin volumes using the new thin provisioning driver appear as\n(t).\n\n8  Newly-allocated data blocks are overwritten with blocks of (z)eroes before use.\n\n9  Volume Health, where there are currently three groups of attributes identified:\n\nCommon ones for all Logical Volumes: (p)artial, (X) unknown.\n(p)artial signifies that one or more of the Physical Volumes this Logical Volume  uses  is\nmissing from the system. (X) unknown signifies the status is unknown.\n\nRelated to RAID Logical Volumes: (r)efresh needed, (m)ismatches exist, (w)ritemostly.\n(r)efresh signifies that one or more of the Physical Volumes this RAID Logical Volume uses\nhad suffered a write error. The write error could be due to a temporary  failure  of  that\nPhysical  Volume  or  an indication that it is failing.  The device should be refreshed or\nreplaced. (m)ismatches signifies that the RAID logical volume has portions  of  the  array\nthat  are  not  coherent.   Inconsistencies are detected by initiating a \"check\" on a RAID\nlogical volume.  (The scrubbing operations, \"check\" and \"repair\", can be  performed  on  a\nRAID logical volume via the 'lvchange' command.)  (w)ritemostly signifies the devices in a\nRAID 1 logical volume that have been marked write-mostly.  Re(s)haping  signifies  a  RAID\nLogical Volume is either undergoing a stripe addition/removal, a stripe size or RAID algo‐\nrithm change.  (R)emove after reshape signifies freed striped raid images to be removed.\n\nRelated to Thin pool Logical Volumes: (F)ailed, out of (D)ata space, (M)etadata read only.\n(F)ailed is set if thin pool encounters serious failures and hence no further I/O is  per‐\nmitted  at  all.  The  out  of (D)ata space is set if thin pool has run out of data space.\n(M)etadata read only signifies that thin pool encounters certain  types  of  failures  but\nit's still possible to do reads at least, but no metadata changes are allowed.\n\nRelated to Thin Logical Volumes: (F)ailed.\n(F)ailed is set when related thin pool enters Failed state and no further I/O is permitted\nat all.\n\nRelated to writecache logical volumes: (E)rror.\n(E)rror is set dm-writecache reports an error.\n\n10 s(k)ip activation: this volume is flagged to be skipped during activation.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "lvm(8) lvm.conf(5) lvmconfig(8)\n\npvchange(8) pvck(8) pvcreate(8) pvdisplay(8) pvmove(8) pvremove(8)  pvresize(8)  pvs(8)  pvs‐‐\ncan(8)\n\nvgcfgbackup(8)  vgcfgrestore(8) vgchange(8) vgck(8) vgcreate(8) vgconvert(8) vgdisplay(8) vg‐‐\nexport(8) vgextend(8) vgimport(8) vgimportclone(8) vgmerge(8) vgmknodes(8) vgreduce(8)  vgre‐‐\nmove(8) vgrename(8) vgs(8) vgscan(8) vgsplit(8)\n\nlvcreate(8)  lvchange(8)  lvconvert(8) lvdisplay(8) lvextend(8) lvreduce(8) lvremove(8) lvre‐‐\nname(8) lvresize(8) lvs(8) lvscan(8)\n\nlvm-fullreport(8) lvm-lvpoll(8) lvm2-activation-generator(8) blkdeactivate(8) lvmdump(8)\n\ndmeventd(8) lvmpolld(8) lvmlockd(8) lvmlockctl(8) cmirrord(8) lvmdbusd(8)\n\nlvmsystemid(7) lvmreport(7) lvmraid(7) lvmthin(7) lvmcache(7)\n\n\n\nRed Hat, Inc.                     LVM TOOLS 2.03.11(2) (2021-01-08)                           LVS(8)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "lvs - Display information about logical volumes",
    "flags": [
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--aligned",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Use with --separator to align the output columns"
        },
        {
            "flag": "-a",
            "long": "--all",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Show information about internal LVs. These are components of normal LVs, such as mir‐ rors, which are not independently accessible, e.g. not mountable."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--binary",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Use binary values \"0\" or \"1\" instead of descriptive literal values for columns that have exactly two valid values to report (not counting the \"unknown\" value which de‐ notes that the value could not be determined). --commandprofile String The command profile to use for command configuration. See lvm.conf(5) for more infor‐ mation about profiles. --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) for more information about config. --configreport log|vg|lv|pv|pvseg|seg See lvmreport(7)."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-d",
            "long": "--debug",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "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). --driverloaded y|n If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper. For testing and de‐ bugging."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--foreign",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Report/display foreign VGs that would otherwise be skipped. See lvmsystemid(7) for more information about foreign VGs."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-h",
            "long": "--help",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Display help text."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-H",
            "long": "--history",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Include historical LVs in the output. (This has no effect unless LVs were removed while lvm.conf metadata/recordlvshistory was enabled."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--ignorelockingfailure",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Allows a command to continue with read-only metadata operations after locking fail‐ ures. --lockopt String Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See lvmlockd(8) for more informa‐ tion."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--logonly",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Suppress command report and display only log report."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--longhelp",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Display long help text."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--nameprefixes",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Add an \"LVM2\" prefix plus the field name to the output. Useful with --noheadings to produce a list of field=value pairs that can be used to set environment variables (for example, in udev rules)."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--noheadings",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Suppress the headings line that is normally the first line of output. Useful if grep‐ ping the output."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--nolocking",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Disable locking."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--nosuffix",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Suppress the suffix on output sizes. Use with --units (except h and H) if processing the output."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-o",
            "long": "--options",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Comma-separated, ordered list of fields to display in columns. String arg syntax is: [+|-|#]Field1[,Field2 ...] The prefix + will append the specified fields to the de‐ fault fields, - will remove the specified fields from the default fields, and # will compact specified fields (removing them when empty for all rows.) Use -o help to view the list of all available fields. Use separate lists of fields to add, remove or com‐ pact by repeating the -o option: -o+field1,field2 -o-field3,field4 -o#field5. These lists are evaluated from left to right. Use field name lvall to view all LV fields, vgall all VG fields, pvall all PV fields, pvsegall all PV segment fields, segall all LV segment fields, and pvsegall all PV segment columns. See the lvm.conf report section for more config options. See lvmreport(7) for more information about report‐ ing. --profile String An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on the command."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-q",
            "long": "--quiet",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose. Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with answer 'no'."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--readonly",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "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. --reportformat basic|json Overrides current output format for reports which is defined globally by the re‐ port/outputformat 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) for more information."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--rows",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Output columns as rows."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--segments",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Use default columns that emphasize segment information."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-S",
            "long": "--select",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified criteria. The criteria syntax is described by --select help and lvmreport(7). 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. --separator String String to use to separate each column. Useful if grepping the output."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--shared",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Report/display shared VGs that would otherwise be skipped when lvmlockd is not being used on the host. See lvmlockd(8) for more information about shared VGs."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-O",
            "long": "--sort",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Comma-separated ordered list of columns to sort by. Replaces the default selection. Precede any column with - for a reverse sort on that column."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-t",
            "long": "--test",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "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."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--unbuffered",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Produce output immediately without sorting or aligning the columns properly. --units r|R|h|H|b|B|s|S|k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T|p|P|e|E All sizes are output in these units: human-(r)eadable with '<' rounding indicator, (h)uman-readable, (b)ytes, (s)ectors, (k)ilobytes, (m)egabytes, (g)igabytes, (t)er‐ abytes, (p)etabytes, (e)xabytes. Capitalise to use multiples of 1000 (S.I.) instead of 1024. Custom units can be specified, e.g. --units 3M."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--unquoted",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "When used with --nameprefixes, output values in the field=value pairs are not quoted."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-v",
            "long": "--verbose",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the detail of messages sent to stdout and stderr."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--version",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Display version information."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-y",
            "long": "--yes",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the answer yes. Use with extreme caution. (For automatic no, see -qq.)"
        }
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        {
            "name": "lvm",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvm.conf",
            "section": "5",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm.conf/5/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvmconfig",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmconfig/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pvchange",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvchange/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pvck",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvck/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pvcreate",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvcreate/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pvdisplay",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvdisplay/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pvmove",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvmove/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pvremove",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvremove/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pvresize",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvresize/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pvs",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pvs/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "can",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/can/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgcfgbackup",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgcfgbackup/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgcfgrestore",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgcfgrestore/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgchange",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgchange/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgck",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgck/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgcreate",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgcreate/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgconvert",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgconvert/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgdisplay",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgdisplay/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "export",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/export/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgextend",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgextend/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgimport",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgimport/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgimportclone",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgimportclone/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgmerge",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgmerge/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgmknodes",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgmknodes/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgreduce",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgreduce/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "move",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/move/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgrename",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgrename/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgs",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgs/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgscan",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgscan/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "vgsplit",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/vgsplit/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvcreate",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvcreate/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvchange",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvchange/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvconvert",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvconvert/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvdisplay",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvdisplay/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvextend",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvextend/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvreduce",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvreduce/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvremove",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvremove/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "name",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/name/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvresize",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvresize/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvscan",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvscan/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvm-fullreport",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm-fullreport/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvm-lvpoll",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm-lvpoll/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvm2-activation-generator",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvm2-activation-generator/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "blkdeactivate",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/blkdeactivate/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvmdump",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmdump/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "dmeventd",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dmeventd/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvmpolld",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmpolld/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvmlockd",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmlockd/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvmlockctl",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmlockctl/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "cmirrord",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/cmirrord/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvmdbusd",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmdbusd/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvmsystemid",
            "section": "7",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmsystemid/7/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvmreport",
            "section": "7",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmreport/7/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvmraid",
            "section": "7",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmraid/7/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvmthin",
            "section": "7",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmthin/7/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "lvmcache",
            "section": "7",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/lvmcache/7/json"
        }
    ]
}