Displaying Logical Volumes

 

In order to display information about LVM, there are several command line programs available.

pvdisplay shows one or more physical volumes. If you leave off the physical volume name, it lists all physical volumes (see commands below):

$ pvdisplay
$ pvdisplay /dev/sda5

vgdisplay shows one or more volume groups. If you leave off the volume group name, it lists all volume groups (see commands below):

$ vgdisplay
$ vgdisplay /dev/vg0

lvdisplay shows one or more logical volumes. If you leave off the logical volume name, it lists all logical volumes (see commands below):

$ lvdisplay
$ lvdisplay /dev/vg0/lvm1

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