HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 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

device_path

DESCRIPTION

The

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

Options

lvmchk recognizes the following option:

device_path The device path name of a disk volume. device_path can be a block disk, raw disk, or a

logical volume.

RETURN VALUE

lvmchk returns the following values

0 The volume speciﬁed by device_path is under the control of LVM.

1 The volume speciﬁed by device_path is not under the control of LVM.

255 There was an internal I/O error on the volume speciﬁed by device_path.

EXAMPLES

Examine whether volumes

/dev/dsk/c0t6d0

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

belong to LVM or not.

lvmchk /dev/dsk/c0t6d0

lvmchk /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0

lvmchk /dev/vg00/lvol1

AUTHOR

lvmchk was developed by HP.