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NAME
pvdisplay - display attributes of a physical volumeSYNOPSIS
pvdisplay [-c|--colon] [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-s|--short] [-v[v]|--verbose [--verbose]] PhysicalVolumePath [PhysicalVolumePath...]DESCRIPTION
pvdisplay allows you to see the attributes of one or more physical volumes like size, physical extent size, space used for the volume group descriptor area and so on.OPTIONS
- -c, --colon
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Generate colon seperated output for easier parsing in scripts or programs.
The values are: * physical volume device name * volume group name * physical volume size in kilobytes * internal physical volume number * physical volume status * physical volume (not) allocatable * current number of logical volumes on this physical volume * physical extent size in kilobytes * total number of physical extents * free number of physical extents * allocated number of physical extents
- -d, --debug
- Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).
- -h, --help
- Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- -s, --short
- Only display the size of the given physical volumes.
- -v, --verbose
- Display the mapping of physical extents to logical volumes and logical extents.
- -vv, --verbose --verbose
- Like -v with verbose runtime information about pvdisplay's activities.
DIAGNOSTICS
pvdisplay returns an code state of 0 for success and > 0 for error:1 no physical volume name on command line 2 error checking consistency of physical volume 3 error reading physical extent information from physical volume 95 driver/module not in kernel 96 invalid I/O protocol version 97 error locking logical volume manager 98 invalid lvmtab (run vgscan(8)) 99 invalid command line
See also
lvm(8), pvcreate(8), lvcreate(8), vgcreate(8)AUTHOR
Heinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com>
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