ben scott wrote: > The explanation of the attribute bits printed by the program "vgs" in the man > page are as follows: > > The vg_attr bits are: (w)riteable, (r)ead only, resi(z)eable, e(x)ported, > (p)artial and (c)lustered. > > However "vgs" on my debian Etch system prints out this way: ... See lib/report/report.c in sources for exact description, Short overview (note that some attributes are used for hidden volumes only which are parts of snapshot, mirror, etc...) PV attributes a- |`- exported (vg) [x|-] `-- allocatable [a|-] VG attributes wz--n- |||||`- clustered [c|-] ||||`-- allocation policy (c)ontiguous,(C)ling,(n)ormal,(a)nywhere,(i)nherit |||`--- partial vg [p|-] ||`---- exported vg [x|-] |`----- resizeable vg [z|-] `------ writable [w|r] LV attributes -wi-a- |||||`- open [o|-] ||||`-- (s)uspended,(a)ctive,(i)nactive((d)without mapping table), |||| (I)nvalid snapshot, invalid (S)uspended snapshot [s|a|i|d|S|I] |||`--- fixed minor [m|-] ||`---- allocation policy (if locked ->capitalized) [c|C|n|a|i] |`----- writable (in pvmove '-') [w|r|-] `------ type: (p)vmoved, (m)irrored ((M) not synced), mirror (i)mage,(l)og, (v)irtual, snapshot (o)rigin/(s)cow [p|m|M|i|l|v|o|s|-] Milan -- mbroz@redhat.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/