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]]  PhysicalVol-
       umePath [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
              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  vol-
              umes.

       -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)