PVCK

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: LVM TOOLS 2.02.66(2) (2010-05-20)
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NAME

pvck - check physical volume metadata  

SYNOPSIS

pvck [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [--labelsector] PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...]  

DESCRIPTION

pvck checks physical volume LVM metadata for consistency.  

OPTIONS

See lvm for common options.
--labelsector sector
By default, 4 sectors of PhysicalVolume are scanned for an LVM label, starting at sector 0. This parameter allows you to specify a different starting sector for the scan and is useful for recovery situations. For example, suppose the partition table is corrupted or lost on /dev/sda, but you suspect there was an LVM partition at approximately 100 MB. This area of the disk may be scanned by using the --labelsector parameter with a value of 204800 (100 * 1024 * 1024 / 512 = 204800):

pvck --labelsector 204800 /dev/sda

Note that a script can be used with --labelsector to automate the process of finding LVM labels.

 

SEE ALSO

lvm(8), pvcreate(8), pvscan(8) vgck(8)


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO

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