HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

lvmchk(1M) lvmchk(1M)

NAME

lvmchk - check if disk volume is under HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM) control

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/lvmchk

pv_path

DESCRIPTION

The

lvmchk command returns information about the disk volume speciﬁed by the pv_path parameter.

Options

lvmchk recognizes the following option:

pv_path The device path name of a disk volume. pv_path can be a block device, raw disk, or a logi-

cal volume.

RETURN VALUE

lvmchk returns the following values

0 The disk speciﬁed by pv_path is under the control of LVM.

1 The disk speciﬁed by pv_path is not under the control of LVM.

255 There was an internal I/O error on the disk speciﬁed by pv_path, or a command line syntax or

usage error was encountered.

EXAMPLES

Examine whether disks

/dev/dsk/c0t6d0

, /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0, and /dev/vg00/lvol1

belong

to LVM.

lvmchk /dev/dsk/c0t6d0

lvmchk /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0

lvmchk /dev/vg00/lvol1

AUTHOR

lvmchk was developed by HP.