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6 pvck - check physical volume metadata
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9 pvck [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [--labelsector] Physi‐
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13 pvck checks physical volume LVM metadata for consistency.
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18 --labelsector sector
19 By default, 4 sectors of PhysicalVolume are scanned for an LVM
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21 ify a different starting sector for the scan and is useful for
22 recovery situations. For example, suppose the partition table
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34 lvm(8), pvcreate(8), pvscan(8) vgck(8)
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38Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.84(2) (2011-02-09) PVCK(8)