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					pvdisplay(8) | 
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pvdisplay − display attributes of a physical volume
pvdisplay [−c|−−colon] [−d|−−debug] [−h|−−help] [−s|−−short] [−v[v]|−−verbose [−−verbose]] PhysicalVolumePath [PhysicalVolumePath...]
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 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.
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
lvm(8), pvcreate(8), lvcreate(8), vgcreate(8)
Heinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com>
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