NAME¶
lvmdump — create lvm2 information dumps for diagnostic purposes
SYNOPSIS¶
lvmdump [
-a] [
-c] [
-d directory] [
-h]
[
-l] [
-m] [
-s] [
-u]
DESCRIPTION¶
lvmdump is a tool to dump various information concerning LVM2. By default, it
creates a tarball suitable for submission along with a problem report.
The content of the tarball is as follows:
- dmsetup info
- table of currently running processes
- recent entries from /var/log/messages (containing system messages)
- complete lvm configuration and cache (content of /etc/lvm)
- list of device nodes present under /dev
- list of files present /sys/block
- list of files present /sys/devices/virtual/block
- if enabled with -m, metadata dump will be also included
- if enabled with -a, debug output of vgscan, pvscan and list of all available
volume groups, physical volumes and logical volumes will be included
- if enabled with -c, cluster status info
- if enabled with -l, lvmetad state if running
- if enabled with -s, system info and context
- if enabled with -u, udev info and context
OPTIONS¶
- -a
- Advanced collection. WARNING: if lvm is already hung, then this
script may hang as well if -a is used.
- -c
- If clvmd is running, gather cluster data as well.
- -d directory
- Dump into a directory instead of tarball By default, lvmdump will produce
a single compressed tarball containing all the information. Using this
option, it can be instructed to only produce the raw dump tree, rooted in
directory.
- -h
- Print help message
- -l
- Include lvmetad(8) daemon dump if it is running. The dump contains
cached information that is currently stored in lvmetad: VG metadata, PV
metadata and various mappings in between these metadata for quick
access.
- -m
- Gather LVM metadata from the PVs This option generates a 1:1 dump of the
metadata area from all PVs visible to the system, which can cause the dump
to increase in size considerably. However, the metadata dump may represent
a valuable diagnostic resource.
- -s
- Gather system info and context. Currently, this encompasses systemd info
and context only: overall state of systemd units present in the system,
more detailed status of units controlling LVM functionality and the
content of systemd journal for current boot.
- -u
- Gather udev info and context: /etc/udev/udev.conf file, udev daemon
version (output of 'udevadm info --version' command), udev rules currently
used in the system (content of /lib/udev/rules.d and /etc/udev/rules.d
directory), list of files in /lib/udev directory and dump of current udev
database content (the output of 'udevadm info --export-db' command).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
- LVM_BINARY
- The LVM2 binary to use. Defaults to "lvm". Sometimes you might
need to set this to "/sbin/lvm.static", for example.
- DMSETUP_BINARY
- The dmsetup binary to use. Defaults to "dmsetup".
SEE ALSO¶
lvm(8)