pvdata8
Debugging output of a physical volume
Usage
pvdata [-a]
[-d]
[-E]
[-L]
[-P
[P]]
[-V]
[-h/?]
[-v
[v]]
PhysicalVolumePath
[PhysicalVolumePath ...]
Overview
pvdata allows you to display the volume group descriptor array (VGDA) on a physical volume in parts or total for debugging purposes.
Options
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-a -
Display all structures (PV, VG, LV, PE).
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-d -
Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).
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-E -
Display physical extent structures.
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-L -
Display logical volume structures.
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-N -
Display the physical volume name list (will disappear in a future release).
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-P -
Display physical volume structure in pvdisplay format.
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-PP -
Display physical volume structure with additional attributes.
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-V -
Display volume group structure.
- -h/?
-
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
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-v -
Display verbose structure information.
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-vv -
Like with -v plus verbose runtime information about pvdata's activities.
Diagnostics
pvdata returns an exit state of 0 for success and > 0 for error:
1 no physical volume name on command line 95 driver/module not in kernel 96 invalid i/o protocol version 97 error locking logical volume manager 99 invalid command line