pvdata
allows you to display the volume group descriptor array (VGDA) of
PhysicalVolume
in part or whole for debugging purposes.
OPTIONS
-a, --all
Display all structures (PE, LV, PV, UUID, VG). The same as giving the
-E -L -P -U -V
options.
-d, --debug
Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).
-E, --physicalextent
Display physical extent structures.
-h, --help
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
-L, --logicalvolume
Display logical volume structures.
-P, --physicalvolume
Display physical volume structure in pvdisplay format. If given a second
time, also display the on-disk LVM metadata locations.
-U, --uuidlist
Display the volume group UUID list.
-v, --verbose
Display verbose structure information. If given a second time,
verbose runtime information about pvdata's activities are also shown.
-V, --volumegroup
Display volume group structure.
--version
Display the version and exit successfully.
DIAGNOSTICS
pvdata returns an exit code of 0 for success and > 0 for error:
1 no physical volume name on command line
95 driver/module not in kernel
96 invalid O/O protocol version
97 error locking logical volume manager
99 invalid command line
