VGDISPLAY(8)

NAME
vgdisplay - display attributes of volume groups

SYNOPSIS
vgdisplay [-A|--activevolumegroups] [-c|--colon] [-d|--debug] [-D|--disk] [-h|--help] [-s|--short] [-v[v]|--verbose [--verbose]] [--version] [VolumeGroupName...]

DESCRIPTION
vgdisplay allows you to see the attributes of VolumeGroupName (or all volume groups if none is given) with it's physical and logical volumes and their sizes etc.

  OPTIONS

-A, --activevolumegroups
    Only select the active volume groups.

-c, --colon
    Generate colon seperated output for easier parsing in scripts or programs.
    The values are:
    1  volume group name
    2  volume group access
    3  volume group status
    4  internal volume group number
    5  maximum number of logical volumes
    6  current number of logical volumes
    7  open count of all logical volumes in this volume group
    8  maximum logical volume size
    9  maximum number of physical volumes
    10 current number of physical volumes
    11 actual number of physical volumes
    12 size of volume group in kilobytes
    13 physical extent size
    14 total number of physical extents for this volume group
    15 allocated number of physical extents for this volume group
    16 free number of physical extents for this volume group
    17 uuid of volume group

-d, --debug
    Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).

-D, --disk
    Show attributes from the volume group descriptor area on disk(s). Without this switch they are shown from the kernel. Useful if the volume group isn't activated.

-h, --help
    Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.

-s, --short
    Give a short listing showing the existence of volume groups.

-v, --verbose
    Display verbose information containing long listings of physical and logical volumes. If given twice, also display verbose runtime information of vgdisplay's activities.

--version
    Display version and exit successfully.

DIAGNOSTICS
vgdisplay returns an exit code of 0 for success and > 0 for error:
1  error reading VGDA
2  volume group doesn't exist
3  not all physical volumes of volume group online
4  volume group not found
5  no volume groups found at all
6  error reading VGDA from lvmtab
95 driver/module not in kernel
96 invalid I/O protocol version
97 error locking logical volume manager
98 invalid lvmtab (run vgscan(8))
99 invalid command line

SEE ALSO
lvm(8), pvcreate(8), vgcreate(8), lvcreate(8)

AUTHOR
Heinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com>