Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.1 - LVM ADMINISTRATION Manual page 54

Chapter 4. LVM Administration with CLI Commands
The pvs command displays the following fields by default: pv_name, vg_name, pv_fmt, pv_attr,
pv_size, pv_free. The display is sorted by pv_name.
# pvs
PV VG
/dev/sdb1 new_vg lvm2 a-
/dev/sdc1 new_vg lvm2 a-
/dev/sdd1 new_vg lvm2 a-
Using the -v argument with the pvs command adds the following fields to the default display:
dev_size, pv_uuid.
# pvs -v
Scanning for physical volume names
PV VG
/dev/sdb1 new_vg lvm2 a-
D9eB-M7iv-6XqA-dqGeXY
/dev/sdc1 new_vg lvm2 a-
IdwM-01S9-XO8M-mcpsVe
/dev/sdd1 new_vg lvm2 a-
dECm-0RZ3-0dGW-tUqkCS
You can use the --segments argument of the pvs command to display information about each
physical volume segment. A segment is a group of extents. A segment view can be useful if you want
to see whether your logical volume is fragmented.
The pvs --segments command displays the following fields by default: pv_name, vg_name,
pv_fmt, pv_attr, pv_size, pv_free, pvseg_start, pvseg_size. The display is sorted by
pv_name and pvseg_size within the physical volume.
# pvs --segments
PV VG
/dev/hda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a-
/dev/hda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a-
/dev/hda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a-
/dev/sda1 vg
/dev/sda1 vg
/dev/sda1 vg
/dev/sda1 vg
/dev/sda1 vg
/dev/sda1 vg
/dev/sda1 vg
/dev/sda1 vg
/dev/sdb1 vg
/dev/sdc1 vg
/dev/sdd1 vg
/dev/sde1 vg
/dev/sdf1 vg
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Fmt Attr PSize
17.14G 17.14G
17.14G 17.09G
17.14G 17.13G
Fmt Attr PSize
17.14G 17.14G
17.14G 17.09G
17.14G 17.13G
Fmt Attr PSize
37.16G 32.00M
37.16G 32.00M
37.16G 32.00M
lvm2 a- 17.14G 16.75G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 16.75G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 16.75G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 16.75G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 16.75G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 16.75G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 16.75G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 16.75G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 17.14G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 17.14G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 17.14G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 17.14G
lvm2 a- 17.14G 17.14G
PFree
PFree DevSize PV UUID
17.14G onFF2w-1fLC-ughJ-
17.14G Joqlch-yWSj-kuEn-
17.14G yvfvZK-Cf31-j75k-
PFree Start SSize
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1188
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26
50
76
100
126
150
172
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0
0
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1172
16
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26
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24
26
24
22
4217
4389
4389
4389
4389
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