[lvm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Fix pvdisplay to refer to sectors, not KB

Zdenek Kabelac zkabelac at redhat.com
Tue Mar 18 09:36:48 UTC 2014


Dne 18.3.2014 10:11, Hannes Reinecke napsal(a):
> On 03/18/2014 09:57 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>> Dne 18.3.2014 09:24, Hannes Reinecke napsal(a):
>>> From: Thomas Fehr <fehr at suse.de>
>>>
>>> The size is displayed in sectors, not kilobytes.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Fehr <fehr at suse.de>
>>> Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
>>> ---
>>>    man/pvdisplay.8.in | 2 +-
>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/man/pvdisplay.8.in b/man/pvdisplay.8.in
>>> index 03c12c4..13c26b5 100644
>>> --- a/man/pvdisplay.8.in
>>> +++ b/man/pvdisplay.8.in
>>> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The values are:
>>>
>>>    * physical volume device name
>>>    * volume group name
>>> -* physical volume size in kilobytes
>>> +* physical volume size in sectors
>>>    * internal physical volume number (obsolete)
>>>    * physical volume status
>>>    * physical volume (not) allocatable
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Against which version of lvm2 is this patch ?
>>
>> Since my upstream pvdisplay shows  size in  'human readable' format
>> i.e.:
>> (So definitely not in sector - unless used with option  '--units s')
>>
>> --- Physical volume ---
>> PV Name               /dev/loop0
>> VG Name               vg
>> PV Size               976,56 GiB / not usable 0
>> Allocatable           yes
>> PE Size               32,00 KiB
>> Total PE              31999968
>> Free PE               31999872
>> Allocated PE          96
>> PV UUID               5DOVI6-ioCm-LJvd-JbwQ-qJc3-FWO4-yQCjGY
>>
> Did I mention that these patches are ancient?
> (Originally developed in 2007 ...)
>
> I'm just doing house-keeping for our lvm2 package at the moment.
> So I'm not at all surprised this patch is obsolete.
>

Ahh - and I've missed it's for section  '-c, --colon'  and I guess it
still applies for those printed values - since the size is there in sectors  - 
though people are most probably using 'pvs'.

Zdenek





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