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NAME

vgdisplay — display information about LVM volume groups

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/vgdisplay [-F] [-v] [vg_name...]

DESCRIPTION

The vgdisplay command displays information about volume groups. For each vg_name specified, vgdisplay displays information for that volume group only. If no vg_name is specified, vgdisplay displays names and corresponding information for all defined volume groups.

The volume group must be activated (see vgchange(1M)) before it can be displayed.

Options and Arguments

vgdisplay recognizes the following options and arguments:

vg_name

The path name of the volume group, for example, /dev/vg00.

-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...].

-v

For each volume group, display additional information about logical volumes, physical volumes, and physical volume groups.

Display Without -v Option

If you omit the -v option, only the following information is displayed:

--- Volume groups ---
VG Name

The path name of the volume group.

VG Write Access

Current access mode and quiesce mode of the volume group. The access mode is either read/write or read-only. If the volume group is quiesced, the quiesce mode is displayed on the same line. The quiesce mode is either read/write-quiesced or write-quiesced.

VG Status

State of the volume group: always available, as after a vgchange -a y command, since deactivated volume groups are not displayed.

Max LV

Maximum number of logical volumes allowed in the volume group.

Cur LV

Current number of logical volumes in the volume group.

Open LV

Number of logical volumes currently open in the volume group.

Max PV

Maximum number of physical volumes allowed in the volume group.

Cur PV

Current number of physical volumes in the volume group.

Act PV

Number of physical volumes that are currently active.

Max PE per PV

Maximum number (limit) of physical extents that can be allocated from any of the physical volumes in the volume group.

VGDA

Number of Volume Group Descriptor Areas within the volume group.

PE Size

Size of each physical extent in Megabytes.

Total PE

Total number of physical extents within the volume group: the sum of the number of physical extents belonging to each available physical volume in the volume group. (This does not include physical extents belonging to stand-by spare physical volumes; presence of these is only possible if you are using mirrored disks -- see below).

Alloc PE

Number of physical extents currently allocated to logical volumes.

Free PE

Number of physical extents not allocated (not including physical extents belonging to stand-by spares).

Total PVG

Total number of physical volume groups within the volume group.

Total Spare PVs

Total number of physical volumes that are designated as spares for this volume group. This will include both stand-by and active spares -- see below.

Total Spare PVs in use

Total number of spare physical volumes that are active in place of (containing all data from) a failed physical volume.

Display With -v Option

If you specify the -v option, vgdisplay lists the following additional information for each logical volume, for each physical volume, and for each physical volume group in the volume group:

--- Logical volumes ---

Information about logical volumes belonging to vg_name:

LV Name

The block device path name of a logical volume in the volume group.

LV Status

State of the logical volume:

available/stale

Logical volume available but contains physical extents that are not current.

available/syncd

Logical volume available with no stale extents.

unavailable

Logical volume is not available for use.

LV Size (Megabytes)

Size of the logical volume.

Current LE

Number of logical extents in the logical volume.

Allocated PE

Number of physical extents used by the logical volume.

Used PV

Number of physical volumes used by the logical volume.

--- Physical volumes ---

Information about physical volumes belonging to vg_name:

PV Name

The block device path name of a physical volume in the group. When an alternate link to a physical volume has been added, Alternate Link is displayed next to the device path name. (See vgextend(1M) for definition.)

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, it's 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, it's 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 is 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.

Total PE

Total number of physical extents on the physical volume.

Free PE

Number of free physical extents on the physical volume.

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 PV 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 residing 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.

Autoswitch

For multiported devices accessed via multiple paths, this field indicates the autoswitch behavior for the physical volume (see pvchange(1M)).

On

LVM will automatically switch from the path it is using whenever a better path to the physical volume is available. LVM will switch paths when a better path recovers (after it had failed earlier), or if the current path fails and another path is available. This is the default.

Off

LVM will automatically switch to using the best available path only when the path currently in use is unavailable. LVM will continue using a specific path for the physical volume as long as it works, regardless of whether another better path recovers from a failure.

--- Physical volume groups ---

Information about physical volume groups belonging to vg_name:

PVG Name

Name of a physical volume group in the volume group.

PV Name

The block device path name of a physical volume in the physical volume group.

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 vgdisplay command, the lines format is:

LINE 1

The format of Line 1 is as follows:

vg_name=value:vg_write_access=value:vg_status=value:max_lv=value: cur_lv=value:open_lv=value:max_pv=value:cur_pv=value:act_pv=value: max_pe_per_pv=value:vgda=value:pe_size=value:total_pe=value: alloc_pe=value:free_pe=value:total_pvg=value:total_spare_pvs=value: total_spare_pvs_in_use=value

LINE 2

The format of Line 2 is as follows:

cluster:server=value:client=value[:...]

LINE 3

The format of Line 3 is as follows:

lv_name=value:lv_status=value:lv_size=value:current_le=value: allocated_pe=value:used_pv=value

...

The above line may be repeated with different values.

LINE m

The format of Line m is as follows:

pv_name=value[,value]:pv_status=value:total_pe=value:free_pv=value: spared_from_pv=value:spared_to_pv=value:autoswitch=value

...

The above line may be repeated with different values.

LINE n

The format of Line n is as follows:

pvg_name=value:pv_name=value[,value...]

...

The above line may be repeated with different values.

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 information about all the volume groups within the system:

vgdisplay

Display all of the information about one volume group, including the characteristics and status of both the logical and physical extents of the volume group:

vgdisplay -v /dev/vg02

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