NAME
dmsetup - low level logical volume management
SYNOPSIS
dmsetup help [-c|-C|--columns]
dmsetup create device_name [-u uuid] [--notable | --table <table> |
table_file]
dmsetup remove [-f|--force] device_name
dmsetup remove_all [-f|--force]
dmsetup suspend [--nolockfs] [--noflush] device_name
dmsetup resume device_name
dmsetup load device_name [--table <table> | table_file]
dmsetup clear device_name
dmsetup reload device_name [--table <table> | table_file]
dmsetup rename device_name new_name
dmsetup message device_name sector message
dmsetup ls [--target target_type] [--exec command] [--tree [-o
options]]
dmsetup info [device_name]
dmsetup info -c|-C|--columns [--noheadings] [--separator separator] [-o
fields] [-O|--sort sort_fields] [device_name]
dmsetup deps [device_name]
dmsetup status [--target target_type] [device_name]
dmsetup table [--target target_type] [device_name]
dmsetup wait device_name [event_nr]
dmsetup mknodes [device_name]
dmsetup udevflags cookie
dmsetup udevcomplete cookie
dmsetup udevcomplete_all
dmsetup udevcookies
dmsetup targets
dmsetup version
dmsetup setgeometry device_name cyl head sect start
dmsetup splitname device_name [subsystem]
devmap_name major minor
devmap_name major:minor
DESCRIPTION
dmsetup manages logical devices that use the device-mapper driver.
Devices are created by loading a table that specifies a target for each
sector (512 bytes) in the logical device.
The first argument to dmsetup is a command. The second argument is the
logical device name or uuid.
Invoking the command as devmap_name is equivalent to
dmsetup info -c --noheadings -j major -m minor.
OPTIONS
-c|-C|--columns
Display output in columns rather than as Field: Value lines.
-j|--major major
Specify the major number.
-m|--minor minor
Specify the minor number.
-n|--noheadings
Suppress the headings line when using columnar output.
--noopencount
Tell the kernel not to supply the open reference count for the
device.
--notable
When creating a device, don’t load any table.
--noudevsync
Do not synchronise with udev when creating, renaming or removing
devices.
-o|--options
Specify which fields to display.
-r|--readonly
Set the table being loaded read-only.
--readahead [+]<sectors>|auto|none
Specify read ahead size in units of sectors. The default value
is "auto" which allows the kernel to choose a suitable value
automatically. The + prefix lets you specify a minimum value
which will not be used if it is smaller than the value chosen by
the kernel. "None" is equivalent to specifying zero.
--table <table>
Specify a one-line table directly on the command line.
-u|--uuid
Specify the uuid.
-y|--yes
Answer yes to all prompts automatically.
-v|--verbose [-v|--verbose]
Produce additional output.
--version
Display the library and kernel driver version.
COMMANDS
create device_name [-u uuid] [--notable | --table <table> | table_file]
Creates a device with the given name. If table_file or <table>
is supplied, the table is loaded and made live. Otherwise a
table is read from standard input unless --notable is used. The
optional uuid can be used in place of device_name in subsequent
dmsetup commands. If successful a device will appear as
/dev/device-mapper/<device-name>. See below for information on
the table format.
deps [device_name]
Outputs a list of (major, minor) pairs for devices referenced by
the live table for the specified device.
help [-c|-C|--columns]
Outputs a summary of the commands available, optionally
including the list of report fields.
info [device_name]
Outputs some brief information about the device in the form:
State: SUSPENDED|ACTIVE, READ-ONLY
Tables present: LIVE and/or INACTIVE
Open reference count
Last event sequence number (used by wait)
Major and minor device number
Number of targets in the live table
UUID
info [--noheadings] [--separator separator] [-o fields] [-O|--sort
sort_fields] [device_name]
Output you can customise. Fields are comma-separated and chosen
from the following list: name, major, minor, attr, open,
segments, events, uuid. Attributes are: (L)ive, (I)nactive,
(s)uspended, (r)ead-only, read-(w)rite. Precede the list with
’+’ to append to the default selection of columns instead of
replacing it. Precede any sort_field with - for a reverse sort
on that column.
ls [--target target_type] [--exec command] [--tree [-o options]]
List device names. Optionally only list devices that have at
least one target of the specified type. Optionally execute a
command for each device. The device name is appended to the
supplied command. --tree displays dependencies between devices
as a tree. It accepts a comma-separate list of options. Some
specify the information displayed against each node:
device/nodevice; active, open, rw, uuid. Others specify how the
tree is displayed: ascii, utf, vt100; compact, inverted,
notrunc.
load|reload
device_name [--table <table> | table_file]
Loads <table> or table_file into the inactive table slot for
device_name. If neither is supplied, reads a table from
standard input.
message
device_name sector message
Send message to target. If sector not needed use 0.
mknodes
[device_name]
Ensure that the node in /dev/mapper for device_name is correct.
If no device_name is supplied, ensure that all nodes in
/dev/mapper correspond to mapped devices currently loaded by the
device-mapper kernel driver, adding, changing or removing nodes
as necessary.
remove [-f|--force] device_name
Removes a device. It will no longer be visible to dmsetup.
Open devices cannot be removed except with older kernels that
contain a version of device-mapper prior to 4.8.0. In this case
the device will be deleted when its open_count drops to zero.
From version 4.8.0 onwards, if a device can’t be removed because
an uninterruptible process is waiting for I/O to return from it,
adding --force will replace the table with one that fails all
I/O, which might allow the process to be killed.
remove_all
[-f|--force]
Attempts to remove all device definitions i.e. reset the driver.
Use with care! From version 4.8.0 onwards, if devices can’t be
removed because uninterruptible processes are waiting for I/O to
return from them, adding --force will replace the table with one
that fails all I/O, which might allow the process to be killed.
This also runs mknodes afterwards.
rename device_name new_name
Renames a device.
resume device_name
Un-suspends a device. If an inactive table has been loaded, it
becomes live. Postponed I/O then gets re-queued for processing.
setgeometry
device_name cyl head sect start
Sets the device geometry to C/H/S.
splitname
device_name [subsystem]
Splits given device name into subsystem constituents. Default
subsystem is LVM.
status [--target target_type] [device_name]
Outputs status information for each of the device’s targets.
With --target, only information relating to the specified target
type is displayed.
suspend
[--nolockfs] [--noflush] device_name
Suspends a device. Any I/O that has already been mapped by the
device but has not yet completed will be flushed. Any further
I/O to that device will be postponed for as long as the device
is suspended. If there’s a filesystem on the device which
supports the operation, an attempt will be made to sync it first
unless --nolockfs is specified. Some targets such as recent
(October 2006) versions of multipath may support the --noflush
option. This lets outstanding I/O that has not yet reached the
device to remain unflushed.
table [--target target_type] [device_name]
Outputs the current table for the device in a format that can be
fed back in using the create or load commands. With --target,
only information relating to the specified target type is
displayed.
targets
Displays the names and versions of the currently-loaded targets.
udevflags
cookie
Parses given cookie value and extracts any udev control flags
encoded. The output is in environment key format that is
suitable for use in udev rules. If the flag has its symbolic
name assigned then the ouput is DM_UDEV_FLAG_<flag_name>=’1’,
DM_UDEV_FLAG<flag_position>=’1’ otherwise. Subsystem udev flags
don’t have symbolic names assigned and these ones are always
reported as DM_SUBSYSTEM_UDEV_FLAG<flag_position>=’1’. There are
16 udev flags altogether.
udevcomplete
cookie
Wake any processes that are waiting for udev to complete
processing the specified cookie.
udevcomplete_all
Remove all cookies. Any process waiting on a cookie will be
resumed immediately.
udevcookies
List all existing cookies. Cookies are system-wide semaphores
with keys prefixed by two predefined bytes (0x0D4D).
version
Outputs version information.
wait device_name [event_nr]
Sleeps until the event counter for device_name exceeds event_nr.
Use -v to see the event number returned. To wait until the next
event is triggered, use info to find the last event number.
TABLE FORMAT
Each line of the table specifies a single target and is of the form:
logical_start_sector num_sectors target_type target_args
There are currently three simple target types available together with
more complex optional ones that implement snapshots and mirrors.
linear destination_device start_sector
The traditional linear mapping.
striped
num_stripes chunk_size [destination start_sector]+
Creates a striped area.
e.g. striped 2 32 /dev/hda1 0 /dev/hdb1 0 will map the first
chunk (16k) as follows:
LV chunk 1 -> hda1, chunk 1
LV chunk 2 -> hdb1, chunk 1
LV chunk 3 -> hda1, chunk 2
LV chunk 4 -> hdb1, chunk 2
etc.
error
Errors any I/O that goes to this area. Useful for testing or
for creating devices with holes in them.
EXAMPLES
# A table to join two disks together
0 1028160 linear /dev/hda 0
1028160 3903762 linear /dev/hdb 0
# A table to stripe across the two disks,
# and add the spare space from
# hdb to the back of the volume
0 2056320 striped 2 32 /dev/hda 0 /dev/hdb 0
2056320 2875602 linear /dev/hdb 1028160
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
DM_DEV_DIR
The device directory name. Defaults to "/dev" and must be an
absolute path.
AUTHORS
Original version: Joe Thornber (thornber@sistina.com)
SEE ALSO
Device-mapper resource page: http://sources.redhat.com/dm/