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
--devices PV
--devicesfile String
--discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore
--driverloaded y|n
--errorwhenfull y|n
-f|--force
-h|--help
-K|--ignoreactivationskip
--ignorelockingfailure
--ignoremonitoring
--journal String
--lockopt String
--longhelp
-j|--major Number
--[raid]maxrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
--metadataprofile String
--minor Number
--[raid]minrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
--monitor y|n
--nohints
--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
--setautoactivation y|n
--[raid]syncaction check|repair
--sysinit
-t|--test
--vdosettings String
-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.( -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
--setautoactivation y|n
--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]
--vdosettings String
--[raid]writebehind Number
--[raid]writemostly PV[:t|n|y] )
-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
--setautoactivation y|n
--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]
--vdosettings String
--[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.
[ -a|--activate
y|n| ay ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
LV1 types: mirror raid
—
Resynchronize or check a raid LV.
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
LV1 types: raid
—
Reconstruct data on specific PVs of a raid LV.
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
LV1 types: raid
—
Activate or deactivate an LV.
[ -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.
[ -P|--partial ]
[ --activationmode partial|degraded|complete ]
[ --poll y|n ]
[ --monitor y|n ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
—
Start or stop monitoring an LV from dmeventd.
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
—
Start or stop processing an LV conversion.
[ --monitor y|n ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
—
Make the minor device number persistent for an 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 ]
[ --devices PV ]
[ --devicesfile String ]
[ --driverloaded y|n ]
[ --journal String ]
[ --lockopt String ]
[ --longhelp ]
[ --nohints ]
[ --nolocking ]
[ --profile String ]
[ --version ]
OPTIONS
-a|--activate
y|n|ay
Change the active state of LVs. An active LV can be used through a block device,
allowing 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 location and
name of the underlying device node may depend on the distribution,
configuration (e.g. udev), or release version. ay specifies
autoactivation, which is used by system-generated activation commands. By
default, LVs are autoactivated. An autoactivation property can be set on a VG
or LV to disable autoactivation, see --setautoactivation y|n in vgchange,
lvchange, vgcreate, and lvcreate. Display the property with vgs or lvs
"-o autoactivation". The lvm.conf(5)
auto_activation_volume_list includes names of VGs or LVs that should be
autoactivated, and anything not listed is not autoactivated. When
auto_activation_volume_list is undefined (the default), it has no effect. If
auto_activation_volume_list is defined and empty, no LVs are autoactivated.
Items included by auto_activation_volume_list will not be autoactivated if the
autoactivation property has been disabled. See lvmlockd(8) 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(5) activation_mode. See
lvmraid(7) 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) 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 overridden 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) for more information about allocation.
-A|--autobackup
y|n
Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically after a change. Enabling
this is strongly advised! See vgcfgbackup(8) for more
information.
--cachemode
writethrough|writeback|passthrough
Specifies when writes to a cache LV should be considered complete.
writeback considers 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
forwarded to the origin LV; additionally, write hits cause cache block
invalidates. See lvmcache(7) for more information.
--cachepolicy
String
Specifies the cache policy for a cache LV. See lvmcache(7) for more
information.
--cachesettings
String
Specifies tunable kernel options for dm-cache or dm-writecache LVs. Use the form
'option=value' or 'option1=value option2=value', or repeat --cachesettings for
each option being set. These settings override the default kernel behaviors
which are usually adequate. To remove cachesettings and revert to the default
kernel behaviors, use --cachesettings 'default' for dm-cache or an empty
string --cachesettings '' for dm-writecache. See lvmcache(7) for more
information.
--commandprofile
String
The command profile to use for command configuration. See lvm.conf(5) for
more information about profiles.
--compression
y|n
Controls whether compression is enabled or disable for VDO volume. See
lvmvdo(7) for more information about VDO usage.
--config
String
Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf(5) settings. The
String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf(5), or may use
section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more information about
config.
-C|--contiguous
y|n
Sets or resets the contiguous allocation policy for LVs. Default is no
contiguous allocation based on a next free principle. It is only possible to
change a non-contiguous 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) 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) for information about tags.
--detachprofile
Detaches a metadata profile from a VG or LV. See lvm.conf(5) for more
information about profiles.
--devices
PV
Restricts the devices that are visible and accessible to the command. Devices
not listed will appear to be missing. This option can be repeated, or accepts
a comma separated list of devices. This overrides the devices file.
--devicesfile
String
A file listing devices that LVM should use. The file must exist in
/etc/lvm/devices/ and is managed with the lvmdevices(8) command.
This overrides the lvm.conf(5) devices/devicesfile and
devices/use_devicesfile settings.
--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 discards to the
underlying device. See lvmthin(7) for more information.
--driverloaded
y|n
If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper. For testing and
debugging.
--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 after the timeout. (Also see
dm-thin-pool kernel module option no_space_timeout.) See lvmthin(7) 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
failures.
--ignoremonitoring
Do not interact with dmeventd unless --monitor is specified. Do not use this if
dmeventd is already monitoring a device.
--journal
String
Record information in the systemd journal. This information is in addition to
information enabled by the lvm.conf log/journal setting. command: record
information about the command. output: record the default command output.
debug: record full command debugging.
--lockopt
String
Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See lvmlockd(8) for
more information.
--longhelp
Display long help text.
-j|--major
Number
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 unbounded. See lvmraid(7) for more information.
--metadataprofile
String
The metadata profile to use for command configuration. See lvm.conf(5)
for more information 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 unbounded. See lvmraid(7) 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) for more information.
--nohints
Do not use the hints file to locate devices for PVs. A command may read more
devices to find PVs when hints are not used. The command will still perform
standard hint file invalidation where appropriate.
--nolocking
Disable locking. Use with caution, concurrent commands may produce incorrect
results.
--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
missing_stripe_filler setting. Metadata may not be changed with this
option.
-p|--permission
rw|r
Set access permission to read only r or read and write rw.
-M|--persistent
y|n
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 immediately 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
auto|none|Number
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 communicate 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 reconstructing default (rotating) data. See lvmraid(7) 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
report/output_format setting in lvm.conf(5). 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 lvmreport(7) 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. During 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 redundant copy of the data.
See lvmraid(7) for more information.
-S|--select
String
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 selectable 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-reporting commands
which process LVM entities, the selection is used to choose items to
process.
-k|--setactivationskip
y|n
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.
--setautoactivation
y|n
Set the autoactivation property on a VG or LV. Display the property with vgs or
lvs "-o autoactivation". When the autoactivation property is
disabled, the VG or LV will not be activated by a command doing autoactivation
(vgchange, lvchange, or pvscan using -aay.) If autoactivation is disabled on a
VG, no LVs will be autoactivated in that VG, and the LV autoactivation
property has no effect. If autoactivation is enabled on a VG, autoactivation
can be disabled for individual LVs.
--[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(8) for reporting discrepancies found or repaired.
--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 --ignorelockingfailure,
--ignoremonitoring, --poll n, and setting env var
LVM_SUPPRESS_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 reading back metadata it believes has changed
but hasn't.
--vdosettings
String
Specifies tunable VDO options for VDO LVs. Use the form 'option=value' or
'option1=value option2=value', or repeat --vdosettings for each option being
set. These settings override the default VDO behaviors. To remove vdosettings
and revert to the default VDO behaviors, use --vdosettings 'default'. See
lvmvdo(7) for more information.
-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
y|n
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) for valid names.
- LV
- Logical Volume name. See lvm(8) for valid names. An LV positional arg generally includes the VG name and LV name, e.g. VG/LV. LV1 indicates the LV must have a specific type, where the accepted LV types are listed. (raid represents raid<N> type).
- Tag
- Tag name. See lvm(8) 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: 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) 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:SEE ALSO
lvm(8), lvm.conf(5), lvmconfig(8), lvmdevices(8), pvchange(8), pvck(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), pvmove(8), pvremove(8), pvresize(8), pvs(8), pvscan(8), vgcfgbackup(8), vgcfgrestore(8), vgchange(8), vgck(8), vgcreate(8), vgconvert(8), vgdisplay(8), vgexport(8), vgextend(8), vgimport(8), vgimportclone(8), vgimportdevices(8), vgmerge(8), vgmknodes(8), vgreduce(8), vgremove(8), vgrename(8), vgs(8), vgscan(8), vgsplit(8), lvcreate(8), , lvconvert(8), lvdisplay(8), lvextend(8), lvreduce(8), lvremove(8), lvrename(8), lvresize(8), lvs(8), lvscan(8), lvm-fullreport(8), lvm-lvpoll(8), blkdeactivate(8), lvmdump(8), dmeventd(8), lvmpolld(8), lvmlockd(8), lvmlockctl(8), cmirrord(8), lvmdbusd(8), fsadm(8), lvmsystemid(7), lvmreport(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmcache(7)LVM TOOLS 2.03.16(2) (2022-05-18) | Red Hat, Inc. |