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HP-UX 11i Version 3: February 2007
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NAME

pvdisplay — display information about physical volumes in LVM volume group

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/pvdisplay [-v] [-d] [-b BlockList] pv_path ...

/usr/sbin/pvdisplay -l pv_path ...

/usr/sbin/pvdisplay -F [-d] [-v] 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.

-b BlockList

For each block in BlockList, display information about the block. BlockList is a comma separated list of blocks in DEV_BSIZE units.

-d

For each physical volume, display the offset to the start of the user data in 1024 byte blocks from the beginning of the PV, specify if pv_path is a bootable physical volume, and display the number of bad blocks that were relocated. These details are displayed in addition to other information.

-F

Produce a compact listing of fields described in Compact Listing (-F Option). The output is a list of colon separated fields formatted as key=value [, value...].

-l

Check whether pv_path refers to a disk device under HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM) control.

-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.

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.

Allocatable

Allocation permission for the physical volume

VGDA

Number of volume group descriptors on the physical volume

Cur LV

Number of logical volumes using the physical volume

PE Size (Mbytes)

Size of physical extents on the volume, in megabytes (MB)

Total PE

Total number of physical extents on the physical volume

Free PE

Number of free physical extents on the physical volume

Allocated PE

Number of physical extents on the physical volume that are allocated to logical volumes

Stale PE

Number of physical extents on the physical volume that are not current

IO Timeout

The I/O timeout used by the disk driver when accessing the physical volume. A value of default, indicates that the driver default I/O timeout is being used.

Spared from PV

If the physical volume represents an active spare, this field will show the name of the failed physical volume whose data now resides on this spare. This information can be used to manually move the data back to the original physical volume, once it has been repaired. (See pvmove(1M)). If it cannot be determined which physical volume that the data came from, this field will instead display Missing PV. A missing physical volume would indicate that when the volume group was last activated or reactivated (see vgchange(1M)), the "failed" physical volume was not able to attach to the volume group.

Spared to PV

If the physical volume represents a failed physical volume, this field will show the name of the active spare physical volume that now contains the data that originally resided on this volume. This information can be used to manually move the data back to the original physical volume (see pvmove(1M)) once it has been repaired.

Display With -v Option

If -v is specified, pvdisplay lists additional information for each logical volume and for each physical extent on the physical volume:

--- Distribution of physical volume ---

The logical volumes that have extents allocated on pv_path, displayed in column format:

LV Name

The block device path name of the logical volume which has extents allocated on pv_path.

LE of LV

Number of logical extents within the logical volume that are contained on this physical volume

PE for LV

Number of physical extents within the logical volume that are contained on this physical volume

--- Physical extents ---

The following information for each physical extent, displayed in column format:

PE

Physical extent number

Status

Current state of the physical extent: free, current, or stale

LV

The block device path name of the logical volume to which the extent is allocated

LE

Index of the logical extent to which the physical extent is allocated

Display With -d Option

If -d is specified, pvdisplay displays the following additional details for each physical volume:

Data Start

Starting block number (KB) of the user data. Displays unavailable if the PV is unavailable.

Boot Disk

Specify if the pv_path is a bootable physical volume.

yes

PV was setup as a bootable physical volume using pvcreate.

no

Physical volume is not a bootable physical volume.

unavailable

Physical volume is unavailable.

Relocated Blocks

Display the number of bad blocks that were relocated. Displays unavailable if the PV is unavailable.

Compact Listing (-F Option)

The -F option generates a compact and parsable listing of the command output in colon separated fields formatted as key=value [, value...]. The -F option is designed to be used by scripts. The resulting command output may be split across multiple lines. The output may include new keys and/or values in the future. If a key is deprecated, its associated value is set to NAM (key=NAM ). For the current version of the pvdisplay command, the lines format is:

LINE 1

The format of Line 1 is as follows:

pv_name=value[,value ...]:vg_name=value:pv_status=value: allocatable=value:vgda=value:cur_lv=value:pe_size=value: total_pe=value:io_timeout=value:spared_from=value: spared_to=value:autoswitch=value

LINE 2

The format of Line 2 is as follows:

lv_name=value:le_of_lv=value:pe_for_lv=value

...

The above line may be repeated with different values.

LINE n

The format of Line n is as follows:

pe=value:pe_status=value:lv=value:le=value

...

The above line may be repeated with different values.

Display With -b Option

If -b is specified, pvdisplay lists additional information for each block specified in BlockList.

--- Block Mapping ---

The use of blocks on pv_path, displayed in column format:

Block

The block number relative to the physical volume.

Status

The current status of the block: free, used, structure, spared, or unknown

Offset

The offset of the block relative to the logical volume.

LV Name

The block device path name of the logical volume to which the block is allocated.

Display With -l Option

If -l is specified, pvdisplay displays "LVM_Disk=yes" if the physical volume specified by pv_path is under LVM control. If the physical volume is not under LVM control, it displays "LVM_Disk=no" instead.

The pvdisplay command returns 1 if any of the physical volumes specified are under LVM control; otherwise it returns 0.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

LANG determines the language in which messages are displayed.

If LANG is not specified or is null, it defaults to "C" (see lang(5)).

If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, all internationalization variables default to "C" (see environ(5)).

EXAMPLES

Display the status and characteristics of a physical volume:

pvdisplay /dev/dsk/c1t0d0

Display the status, characteristics, and allocation map of a physical volume:

pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/c2t0d0

Check whether the physical volume belongs to LVM:

pvdisplay -l /dev/dsk/c2t0d0

Check if the physical volume has relocated blocks:

pvdisplay -d /dev/dsk/c2t0d0

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