1VGDISPLAY(8) System Manager's Manual VGDISPLAY(8)
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6 vgdisplay - display attributes of volume groups
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9 vgdisplay [-A|--activevolumegroups] [-c|--colon] [-d|--debug]
10 [-h|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure] [-P|--partial] [-s|--short]
11 [-v[v]|--verbose [--verbose]] [--version] [VolumeGroupName...]
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14 vgdisplay allows you to see the attributes of VolumeGroupName (or all
15 volume groups if none is given) with it's physical and logical volumes
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18 vgs [22m(8) is an alternative that provides the same information in the
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22 See lvm for common options.
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24 -A, --activevolumegroups
25 Only select the active volume groups.
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28 Generate colon separated output for easier parsing in scripts or
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35 2 volume group access
36 3 volume group status
37 4 internal volume group number
38 5 maximum number of logical volumes
39 6 current number of logical volumes
40 7 open count of all logical volumes in this volume group
41 8 maximum logical volume size
42 9 maximum number of physical volumes
43 10 current number of physical volumes
44 11 actual number of physical volumes
45 12 size of volume group in kilobytes
46 13 physical extent size
47 14 total number of physical extents for this volume group
48 15 allocated number of physical extents for this volume group
49 16 free number of physical extents for this volume group
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54 Give a short listing showing the existence of volume groups.
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57 Display verbose information containing long listings of physical
58 and logical volumes. If given twice, also display verbose run‐
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65 lvm(8), vgs(8), pvcreate(8), vgcreate(8), lvcreate(8)
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