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:
    - volume group name
    - volume group access
    - volume group status
    - internal volume group number
    - maximum number of logical volumes
    - current number of logical volumes
    - open count of all logical volumes in this volume group
    - maximum logical volume size
    - maximum number of physical volumes
    - current number of physical volumes
    - actual number of physical volumes
    - size of volume group in kilobytes
    - physical extent size
    - total number of physical extents for this volume group
    - allocated number of physical extents for this volume group
    - free number of physical extents for this 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>