Milan, Ah, I didn't realise one could use the pv_ column names with the vgs utility. That's much better. Thanks, steeve Milan Broz wrote: > Hi, > > this will not help for using in script ? > (comma separated list of PVS & PV UUID in VG) > > vgs --separator , --noheadings -o pv_name,pv_uuid <vgname> > > Milan > -- > mbroz@redhat.com > > Steeve McCauley wrote: >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Steeve McCauley Director of Research and Development Rackable Systems 407 McGill Street, Suite 1002 Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2G3 (Canada) Tel: 514-288-3343 http://www.rackable.com :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/