Query: pvdisplay
OS: redhat
Section: 8
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PVDISPLAY(8) System Manager's Manual PVDISPLAY(8)NAMEpvdisplay - display attributes of a physical volumeSYNOPSISpvdisplay [-c|--colon] [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-s|--short] [-v[v]|--verbose [--verbose]] PhysicalVolumePath [PhysicalVolumePath...]DESCRIPTIONpvdisplay 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 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.DIAGNOSTICSpvdisplay 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)AUTHORHeinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com> Heinz Mauelshagen LVM TOOLS PVDISPLAY(8)