1PVDISPLAY(8) System Manager's Manual PVDISPLAY(8)
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6 pvdisplay - display attributes of a physical volume
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9 pvdisplay [-c|--colon] [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--ignorelocking‐
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14 pvdisplay --columns | -C [--aligned] [-a|--all] [-d|--debug]
15 [-h|-?|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure] [--noheadings] [--nosuffix]
16 [-o|--options [+]Field[,Field]] [-O|--sort [+|-]Key1[,[+|-]Key2[,...]]]
17 [--separator Separator] [--unbuffered] [--units hHbBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE]
18 [-v[v]|--verbose [--verbose]] [--version] [PhysicalVolumePath [Physi‐
19 calVolumePath...]]
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22 pvdisplay allows you to see the attributes of one or more physical vol‐
23 umes like size, physical extent size, space used for the volume group
24 descriptor area and so on.
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26 pvs [22m(8) is an alternative that provides the same information in the
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30 See lvm for common options and pvs for options given with --columns.
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34 programs. N.B. pvs (8) provides considerably more control over
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39 * physical volume device name
40 * volume group name
41 * physical volume size in kilobytes
42 * internal physical volume number (obsolete)
43 * physical volume status
44 * physical volume (not) allocatable
45 * current number of logical volumes on this physical volume
46 * physical extent size in kilobytes
47 * total number of physical extents
48 * free number of physical extents
49 * allocated number of physical extents
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56 Display the mapping of physical extents to logical volumes and
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60 Display output in columns, the equivalent of pvs (8). See pvs
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65 lvm(8), pvcreate(8), lvcreate(8), vgcreate(8)
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69Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.84(2) (2011-02-09) PVDISPLAY(8)