| VGDISPLAY(8) | System Manager's Manual | VGDISPLAY(8) | 
NAME
 vgdisplay - display attributes of volume groups
SYNOPSIS
 vgdisplay [-A|--activevolumegroups] [-c|--colon] [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure] [-P|--partial] [-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.
vgs (8) is an alternative that provides the same information in the style of  ps (1).
 
OPTIONS
 See  
lvm for common options.
- 
-A, --activevolumegroups
- 
Only select the active volume groups.
- 
-c, --colon
- 
Generate colon separated output for easier parsing in scripts or programs. N.B.  vgs (8) provides considerably more control over the output.
 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
 
 
 
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-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), vgs(8), pvcreate(8), vgcreate(8), lvcreate(8)