I would like to know if there is a canonical way to list the physical volumes in a volume group, specifically to extract the uuid for those PVs in a bash script. I am able to do something along the lines of, PVS=$(vgdisplay -vv 2>&1 | grep "PV UUID" | awk '{print $3}') PVUUID=$(pvs -o pv_uuid --noheadings /dev/sdx | awk '{print $1}') and then look for PVUUID in the list of PVS. for uuid in $PVS; do [ "$uuid" != "$PVUUID" ] && continue ... done but this relies on the output format of 'vgdisplay -vv' and I want to be sure that I will always get the expected result. Thanks, steeve -- Steeve McCauley :wq _______________________________________________ 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/