Displaying Physical Volumes - Red Hat LVM ADMINISTRATOR 5.0 Administrator's Manual

Chapter 4. LVM Administration with CLI Commands
You can scan for block devices that may be used as physical volumes with the
command, as shown in the following example.
# lvmdiskscan
/dev/ram0
/dev/sda
/dev/root
/dev/ram
/dev/sda1
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
/dev/ram2
/dev/new_vg/lvol0
/dev/ram3
/dev/pkl_new_vg/sparkie_lv
/dev/ram4
/dev/ram5
/dev/ram6
/dev/ram7
/dev/ram8
/dev/ram9
/dev/ram10
/dev/ram11
/dev/ram12
/dev/ram13
/dev/ram14
/dev/ram15
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdc
/dev/sdc1
/dev/sdd
/dev/sdd1
7 disks
17 partitions
0 LVM physical volume whole disks
4 LVM physical volumes

2.2. Displaying Physical Volumes

There are three commands you can use to display properties of LVM physical volumes:
, and
pvdisplay pvscan
The command provides physical volume information in a configurable form, displaying one
pvs
line per physical volume. The
useful for scripting. For information on using the
Section 9, "Customized Reporting for
The command provides a verbose multi-line output for each physical volume. It
pvdisplay
displays physical properties (size, extents, volume group, etc.) in a fixed format.
The following example shows the output of the
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pvs
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17.15 GB]
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17.14 GB] LVM physical volume
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17.14 GB] LVM physical volume
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17.14 GB] LVM physical volume
command to customize your output, see
pvs
command for a single physical
pvdisplay
lvmdiskscan
,
pvs