UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

If no flags are specified, the following status is displayed:

Logical volume Name of the logical volume. Logical volume names must be unique systemwide and can range from 1 to 15 characters. 
Volume group Name of the volume group. Volume group names must be unique systemwide and can range from 1 to 15 characters. 
Logical volume identifier Identifier of the logical volume. 
Permission Access permission; read-only or read-write. 
Volume group state State of the volume group. If the volume group is activated with the varyonvg command, the state is either active/complete (indicating all physical volumes are active) or active/partial (indicating all physical volumes are not active). If the volume group is not activated with the varyonvg command, the state is inactive. 
Logical volume state State of the logical volume. The Opened/stale status indicates the logical volume is open but contains physical partitions that are not current. Opened/syncd indicates the logical volume is open and synchronized. Closed indicates the logical volume has not been opened. 
Type Logical volume type. 
Write verify Write verify state of On or Off. 
Mirror write consistency Mirror write consistency state of Yes or No. 
Max LPs Maximum number of logical partitions the logical volume can hold. 
PP size Size of each physical partition. 
Copies Number of physical partitions created for each logical partition when allocating. 
Schedule policy Sequential or parallel scheduling policy. 
LPs Number of logical partitions currently in the logical volume. 
PPs Number of physical partitions currently in the logical volume. 
Stale partitions Number of physical partitions in the logical volume that are not current. 
Bad blocks Bad block relocation policy. 
Inter-policy Inter-physical allocation policy. 
Strictness Current state of allocation, strict, nonstrict, or superstrict. A strict allocation states that no copies for a logical partition are allocated on the same physical volume. If the allocation does not follow the strict criteria, is is called nonstrict. A nonstrict allocation states that at least one occurrence of two physical partitions belong to the same logical partition. A superstrict allocation states that no partition from one mirror copy may reside the same disk as another mirror copy. 
Intra-policy Intra-physical allocation policy. 
Upper bound If the logical volume is super strict, upper bound is the maximum number of disks in a mirror copy. 
Relocatable Indicates whether the partitions can be relocated if a reorganization of partition allocation takes place. 
Mount point File system mount point for the logical volume, if applicable. 
Label Specifies the label field for the logical volume. 
PV distribution The distribution of the logical volume within the volume group. The physical volumes used, the number of logical partitions on each physical volume, and the number of physical partitions on each physical volume are shown. 
striping width The number of physical volumes being striped across. 
strip size The number of bytes per stripe.