| Linux / Unix Command: vgdisplay |
NAME
vgdisplay - display attributes of volume groupsSYNOPSIS
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.
SEE ALSO
lvm(8), pvcreate(8), vgcreate(8), lvcreate(8)Important: Use the man command (% man) to see how a command is used on your particular computer.

