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VGCHANGE(8)							   VGCHANGE(8)

NAME
       vgchange - change attributes of a volume group

SYNOPSIS
       vgchange	 [--addtag  Tag]  [--alloc  AllocationPolicy] [-A|--autobackup
       {y|n}]  [-a|--activate	[a|e|l]	  {y|n}]   [-K|--ignoreactivationskip]
       [--monitor  {y|n}]  [--poll  {y|n}]  [-c|--clustered {y|n}] [-u|--uuid]
       [-d|--debug] [--deltag Tag] [--profile  ProfileName]  [--detachprofile]
       [-h|--help]	  [--ignorelockingfailure]	  [--ignoremonitoring]
       [--ignoreskippedcluster] [--sysinit] [--noudevsync] [-l|--logicalvolume
       MaxLogicalVolumes]     [-p|--maxphysicalvolumes	   MaxPhysicalVolumes]
       [--[vg]metadatacopies]	NumberOfCopies|unmanaged|all]	[-P|--partial]
       [-s|--physicalextentsize		 PhysicalExtentSize[bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE]]
       [--refresh]  [-t|--test]	 [-v|--verbose]	 [--version]  [-x|--resizeable
       {y|n}] [VolumeGroupName...]

DESCRIPTION
       vgchange	 allows	 you  to  change  the attributes of one or more volume
       groups. Its main purpose is to activate and deactivate VolumeGroupName,
       or  all	volume groups if none is specified.  Only active volume groups
       are subject to changes and allow access to their logical volumes.  [Not
       yet implemented: During volume group activation, if vgchange recognizes
       snapshot logical volumes which were dropped because  they  ran  out  of
       space,  it  displays  a	message	 informing the administrator that such
       snapshots should be removed (see lvremove(8)).  ]

OPTIONS
       See lvm(8) for common options.

       -A, --autobackup {y|n}
	      Controls automatic backup of metadata  after  the	 change.   See
	      vgcfgbackup(8).  Default is yes.

       -a, --activate [a|e|l]{y|n}
	      Controls	the  availability of the logical volumes in the volume
	      group for input/output.  In other words, makes the logical  vol‐
	      umes  known/unknown  to the kernel.  If autoactivation option is
	      used (-aay), each logical volume in the volume  group  is	 acti‐
	      vated  only if it matches an item in the activation/auto_activa‐
	      tion_volume_list set in lvm.conf. If this list is not set,  then
	      all  volumes  are	 considered  for  activation.  The -aay option
	      should be also used during  system  boot	so  it's  possible  to
	      select which volumes to activate using the activation/auto_acti‐
	      vation_volume_list settting.

	      If clustered locking is enabled, add 'e' to  activate/deactivate
	      exclusively  on  one  node or 'l' to activate/deactivate only on
	      the local node.  Logical volumes with single-host snapshots  are
	      always  activated	 exclusively  because they can only be used on
	      one node at once.

       -K, --ignoreactivationskip
	      Ignore the flag to skip Logical Volumes during activation.

       -c, --clustered {y|n}
	      If clustered locking is enabled,	this  indicates	 whether  this
	      Volume  Group  is	 shared	 with  other  nodes  in the cluster or
	      whether it contains only local disks that are not visible on the
	      other  nodes.  If the cluster infrastructure is unavailable on a
	      particular node at a particular time, you may still be  able  to
	      use Volume Groups that are not marked as clustered.

       --detachprofile
	      Detach  any  configuration  profiles  attached  to  given Volume
	      Groups.  See also lvm(8) and lvm.conf(5)	for  more  information
	      about configuration profiles.

       -u, --uuid
	      Generate new random UUID for specified Volume Groups.

       --monitor {y|n}
	      Start  or	 stop monitoring a mirrored or snapshot logical volume
	      with dmeventd, if it is installed.  If a device used by a	 moni‐
	      tored  mirror  reports  an  I/O  error,  the  failure is handled
	      according to mirror_image_fault_policy and mirror_log_fault_pol‐
	      icy set in lvm.conf(5).

       --poll {y|n}
	      Without  polling	a logical volume's backgrounded transformation
	      process will never complete.  If there is an  incomplete	pvmove
	      or  lvconvert  (for  example,  on	 rebooting after a crash), use
	      --poll y to restart the process from its last checkpoint.	  How‐
	      ever,  it	 may  not be appropriate to immediately poll a logical
	      volume when it is activated, use --poll  n  to  defer  and  then
	      --poll y to restart the process.

       --sysinit
	      Indicates	 that  vgchange(8)  is being invoked from early system
	      initialisation scripts (e.g. rc.sysinit or  an  initrd),	before
	      writeable 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 equiva‐
	      lent to using --ignorelockingfailure, --ignoremonitoring, --poll
	      n	 and setting LVM_SUPPRESS_LOCKING_FAILURE_MESSAGES environment
	      variable.

	      If --sysinit is used in conjunction with lvmetad(8) enabled  and
	      running,	autoactivation is preferred over manual activation via
	      direct vgchange call.  Logical volumes are autoactivated accord‐
	      ing to auto_activation_volume_list set in lvm.conf(5).

       --noudevsync
	      Disable  udev  synchronisation.  The  process  will not wait for
	      notification from udev.  It will continue	 irrespective  of  any
	      possible udev processing in the background.  You should only use
	      this if udev is not running or has rules that ignore the devices
	      LVM2 creates.

       --ignoremonitoring
	      Make  no	attempt	 to interact with dmeventd unless --monitor is
	      specified.  Do not use this if dmeventd is already monitoring  a
	      device.

       -l, --logicalvolume MaxLogicalVolumes
	      Changes  the  maximum logical volume number of an existing inac‐
	      tive volume group.

       -p, --maxphysicalvolumes MaxPhysicalVolumes
	      Changes the maximum number of physical volumes that  can	belong
	      to  this	volume group.  For volume groups with metadata in lvm1
	      format, the limit is 255.	 If the metadata uses lvm2 format, the
	      value  0	removes	 this restriction: there is then no limit.  If
	      you have a large number of physical volumes in  a	 volume	 group
	      with  metadata in lvm2 format, for tool performance reasons, you
	      should consider some use of --pvmetadatacopies 0 as described in
	      pvcreate(8), and/or use --vgmetadatacopies.

       --[vg]metadatacopies NumberOfCopies|unmanaged|all
	      Sets  the desired number of metadata copies in the volume group.
	      If set to a non-zero value, LVM will  automatically  manage  the
	      'metadataignore'	flags on the physical volumes (see pvchange or
	      pvcreate --metadataignore) in order  to  achieve	NumberOfCopies
	      copies of metadata.  If set to unmanaged, LVM will not automati‐
	      cally manage the 'metadataignore' flags.	If  set	 to  all,  LVM
	      will  first clear all of the 'metadataignore' flags on all meta‐
	      data areas in the volume group, then set the value to unmanaged.
	      The vgmetadatacopies option is useful for volume groups contain‐
	      ing large numbers of physical volumes with metadata as it may be
	      used to minimize metadata read and write overhead.

       -s, --physicalextentsize PhysicalExtentSize[BbBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE]
	      Changes  the  physical  extent  size on physical volumes of this
	      volume group.  A size suffix (k for kilobytes up to t  for  ter‐
	      abytes)  is  optional,  megabytes is the default if no suffix is
	      present. The value must be at least 1  sector  for  LVM2	format
	      (where  the  sector  size	 is the largest sector size of the PVs
	      currently used in the VG) or 8KiB for LVM1 format and it must be
	      a power of 2. The default is 4 MiB.

	      Before  increasing  the  physical extent size, you might need to
	      use lvresize, pvresize and/or pvmove so  that  everything	 fits.
	      For example, every contiguous range of extents used in a logical
	      volume must start and end on an extent boundary.

	      If the volume group metadata uses lvm1 format, extents can  vary
	      in size from 8KiB to 16GiB and there is a limit of 65534 extents
	      in each logical volume.  The default of 4 MiB leads to a maximum
	      logical volume size of around 256GiB.

	      If the volume group metadata uses lvm2 format those restrictions
	      do not apply, but having a large number  of  extents  will  slow
	      down the tools but have no impact on I/O performance to the log‐
	      ical volume.  The smallest PE is 1KiB.

	      The 2.4 kernel has a limitation of 2TiB per block device.

       --refresh
	      If any logical volume in the volume group is active, reload  its
	      metadata.	 This is not necessary in normal operation, but may be
	      useful if something has gone wrong or if you're doing clustering
	      manually without a clustered lock manager.

       -x, --resizeable {y|n}
	      Enables or disables the extension/reduction of this volume group
	      with/by physical volumes.

Examples
       To activate all known volume groups in the system:

       vgchange -a y

       To change the maximum number of	logical	 volumes  of  inactive	volume
       group vg00 to 128.

       vgchange -l 128 /dev/vg00

SEE ALSO
       lvchange(8), lvm(8), vgcreate(8)

Sistina Software UK   LVM TOOLS 2.02.106(2) (2014-04-10)	   VGCHANGE(8)
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