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pvdisplay(8)
NAME
  pvdisplay - Displays information about one or more physical volumes within
  a volume group

SYNOPSIS
  /usr/sbin/pvdisplay [-v] PhysicalVolumePath ...

DESCRIPTION
				     Note

       This command is no longer supported on Digital UNIX systems.
       Features formerly provided by the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
       are now provided by the Logical Storage Manager (LSM).  Existing
       LVM volumes must be migrated to LSM, using an encapsulation
       process.	 For information about moving LVM volumes to LSM, see
       the vollvmencap(8) reference page and the manual Logical Storage
       Manager.


  The pvdisplay command displays information about the physical volume(s)
  specified with the PhysicalVolumePath parameter.  If you use the -v
  (verbose) flag, the program displays a map of the logical extents that
  correspond to the physical extents of each physical volume.

  If you use the pvdisplay command without any flags, the program displays
  the characteristics of each physical volume that you specified with the
  PhysicalVolumePath parameter, namely:

  PV Name   The name of the physical volume

  VG Name   The name of the volume group

  PV Status The state of the physical volume: available or unavailable

  Allocatable
	    The allocation permission for the physical volume

  VGDA	    The number of volume group descriptors on the physical volume

  Cur LV    The number of logical volumes using the physical volume

  PE Size   The size of physical extents on the volume

  Total PE  The total number of physical extents on the physical volume

  Free PE   The number of free physical extents on the physical volume

  Allocated PE
	    The number of physical extents on the physical volume that are
	    allocated to logical volumes

  Stale PE  The number of physical extents on the physical volume that are
	    not current




FLAGS
  -v	    Lists additional information for each logical volume and for each
	    physical extent on the physical volume.

	    Distribution of physical volume: lists the logical volumes that
	    have extents allocated on PhysicalVolumePath:

	    LV Name   The name of the logical volume which has extents
		      allocated on PhysicalVolumePath.

	    LE of LV  The number of logical extents within the logical volume
		      that are contained on this physical volume.

	    PE for LV The number of physical extents within the logical
		      volume that are contained on this physical volume.

	    Physical extents:  displays the following information for each
	    physical extent:

	    PE	      The physical extent number.

	    Status    The state of the physical extent: free, current, or
		      stale.

	    LV	      The name of the logical volume to which the extent is
		      allocated.

	    LE	      The index of the logical extent to which the physical
		      extent is allocated.

EXAMPLES
  This section contains Digital device-specific examples.

   1.  To display the status and characteristics of physical volume rz1c,
       enter:
	    pvdisplay /dev/rz1c

   2.  To display the status, characteristics, and allocation map of physical
       volume rz1c, enter:
	    pvdisplay -v /dev/rz1c

FILES
  /usr/sbin/pvdisplay
	    Specifies the command path

RELATED INFORMATION
  Commands:  lvdisplay(8), pvchange(8), pvcreate(8), pvmove(8) vgcreate(8),
  vgdisplay(8)