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] [-s/--short]
10 [-v[v]/--verbose [--verbose]] PhysicalVolumePath [PhysicalVol‐
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14 pvdisplay allows you to see the attributes of one or more physical vol‐
15 umes like size, physical extent size, space used for the volume group
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18 pvs [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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25 Generate colon separated output for easier parsing in scripts or
26 programs. N.B. pvs (8) provides considerably more control over
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31 * physical volume device name
32 * volume group name
33 * physical volume size in kilobytes
34 * internal physical volume number (obsolete)
35 * physical volume status
36 * physical volume (not) allocatable
37 * current number of logical volumes on this physical volume
38 * physical extent size in kilobytes
39 * total number of physical extents
40 * free number of physical extents
41 * allocated number of physical extents
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45 Only display the size of the given physical volumes.
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48 Display the mapping of physical extents to logical volumes and
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52 lvm(8), pvcreate(8), lvcreate(8), vgcreate(8)
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