lvmdump — create lvm2 information dumps for diagnostic
purposes
lvmdump [-a] [-c] [-d
directory] [-h] [-l] [-m] [-p]
[-s] [-u]
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 -l, lvmetad state if running
- if enabled with -p, lvmpolld state if running
- if enabled with -s, system info and context
- if enabled with -u, udev info and context
- -a
- Advanced collection. WARNING: if lvm is already hung, then this
script may hang as well if -a is used.
- -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.
- -p
- Include lvmpolld(8) daemon dump if it is running. The dump contains
all in-progress operation currently monitored by the daemon and partial
history for all yet uncollected results of polling operations already
finished including reason.
- -s
- Gather system info and context. Currently, this encompasses info gathered
by calling lsblk command and various systemd info and context: 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).
- LVM_BINARY
- The LVM2 binary to use. Defaults to "lvm". Sometimes you might
need to set this to "/usr/lvm/lvm.static", for example.
- DMSETUP_BINARY
- The dmsetup binary to use. Defaults to "dmsetup".