LVM Version 2.0 Volume Groups in HP-UX 11i v3 (September 2008)

pvdisplay

In the March 2008 release of HP-UX 11iV3, the pvdisplay command displays one more line than pvdisplay from

the HP-UX 11i v3 initial release.

When the –d option is used with pvdisplay, the new line appears for both 1.0 and 2.x volume groups. The new

line is “Data End”. “Data Start” and “Data End” are block numbers from the start of the disk. In this display, a

block is always1024 bytes (no matter what the disk sector size is). “Data End” is the block number of the last

block on the disk that may be used by LVM to store user data.

LVM only uses storage in multiples of extent size. In some cases, “Data End” – “Data Start” might not be a

multiple of the extent size. In this case, the space between the last extent and the “Data End” does not contain

any user data.

Example

Autoswitch On

Data Start 1024

Data End 134358016

Boot Disk no

Relocated Blocks 0

Proactive Polling On

}

New line startin

with the

March 2008 release

IO Timeout (Seconds) default

Stale PE 0

Allocated PE 0

Free PE 16401

# pvdisplay -d /dev/disk/disk148

--- Physical volumes ---

PV Name /dev/disk/disk148

VG Name /dev/vgtestl2

PV Status available

Allocatable yes

VGDA 2

Cur LV 0

PE Size (Mbytes) 8

Total PE 16401