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+.TH PVDISPLAY 8 "LVM TOOLS #VERSION#" "Sistina Software UK" \" -*- nroff -*-
+.SH NAME
+pvdisplay \- display attributes of a physical volume
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B pvdisplay
+[\-c/\-\-colon] [\-d/\-\-debug] [\-h/\-?/\-\-help] [\-s/\-\-short]
+[\-v[v]/\-\-verbose [\-\-verbose]]
+PhysicalVolumePath [PhysicalVolumePath...]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+pvdisplay allows you to see the attributes of one or more physical volumes
+like size, physical extent size, space used for the volume group descriptor
+area and so on.
+.P
+\fBpvs\fP (8) is an alternative that provides the same information 
+in the style of \fBps\fP (1).
+.SH OPTIONS
+See \fBlvm\fP for common options.
+.TP
+.I \-c, \-\-colon
+Generate colon separated output for easier parsing in scripts or programs.
+N.B. \fBpvs\fP (8) provides considerably more control over the output.
+.nf
+
+The values are:
+
+* physical volume device name
+* volume group name
+* physical volume size in kilobytes
+* internal physical volume number (obsolete)
+* physical volume status
+* physical volume (not) allocatable
+* current number of logical volumes on this physical volume
+* physical extent size in kilobytes
+* total number of physical extents
+* free number of physical extents
+* allocated number of physical extents
+
+.fi
+.TP
+.I \-s, \-\-short
+Only display the size of the given physical volumes.
+.TP
+.I \-m, \-\-maps
+Display the mapping of physical extents to logical volumes and
+logical extents.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR lvm (8),
+.BR pvcreate (8),
+.BR lvcreate (8),
+.BR vgcreate (8)