HP-UX Reference (11i v2 03/08) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

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pvdisplay(1M) pvdisplay(1M)
NAME
pvdisplay - display information about physical volumes within LVM volume group
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/pvdisplay
[-v][-b BlockList ] pv_path ...
DESCRIPTION
The
pvdisplay command displays information about each physical volume specified by a pv_path
parameter.
Options
pvdisplay recognizes the following options:
pv_path The block device path name of a physical volume.
-v For each physical volume, display the logical volumes that have extents allocated on the
physical volume and the usage of all the physical extents.
-b BlockList
For each block in BlockList , display information about the block. BlockList is a comma
separated list of blocks in
DEV_BSIZE units.
Display Without −−v Option
If you omit the
-v option, pvdisplay displays the characteristics of each physical volume specified by
pv_path :
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name The block device path name of the physical volume
VG Name The path name of the volume group
PV Status State of the physical volume (NOTE: spare physical volumes are only relevant
if you have installed HP MirrorDisk/UX software):
available The physical volume is available and is not a spare
physical volume.
available/data spared
The physical volume is available. However, its data
still resides on an active spare.
available/active spare
The physical volume is available and is an active
spare physical volume. (An active spare is a spare
that has taken over for a failed physical volume.)
available/standby spare
The physical volume is a spare, "standing by" in
case of a failure on any other physical volume in
this volume group. It can only be used to capture
data from a failed physical volume.
unavailable The physical volume is unavailable and is not a
spare physical volume.
unavailable/data spared
The physical volume is unavailable. However, its
data now resides on an active spare, and its data is
available if the active spare is available.
unavailable/active spare
The physical volume is unavailable and it’s an
active spare. Thus, the data on this physical
volume in unavailable.
unavailable/standby spare
The physical volume is a spare, "standing by" that
is not currently available to capture data from a
failed physical volume.
HP-UX 11i Version 2: August 2003 − 1 − Hewlett-Packard Company Section 1M−−629