pvdisplay

PVDISPLAY(8)                                                      PVDISPLAY(8)



NAME
       pvdisplay - display attributes of a physical volume

SYNOPSIS
       pvdisplay    [-c|--colon]    [-d|--debug]    [-h|--help]   [-s|--short]
       [-v[v]|--verbose    [--verbose]]    PhysicalVolumePath    [PhysicalVol-
       umePath...]

DESCRIPTION
       pvdisplay allows you to see the attributes of one or more physical vol-
       umes like size, physical extent size, space used for the  volume  group
       descriptor area and so on.

   OPTIONS
       -c, --colon
              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>



Heinz Mauelshagen                  LVM TOOLS                      PVDISPLAY(8)