pvdisplay to display all pv's on a server

[Ray Allen_1]

Hi All,

I need run pvdisplay on each disk, but as you can imagine, this could take forever and 5 days with serveral servers. Anyone know of a way to run pvdisplay (without -v) to display all the disks on the server at one time, instead of individually.
I am going output to a file, but want to make sure it works before sending it to a file.

I've tried pvdisplay /dev/dsk/c*t*d*

Thanks for your help.

[Sundar_7 · Accepted solution]

Try this

# vgdisplay -v | grep dsk | awk '{print $3}' |xargs pvdisplay >> /tmp/pvdisplay.all.out

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Well, one approach is:

#!/usr/bin/sh



typeset DSK=""
ls /dev/dsk/* | while read DSK
do
pvdisplay ${DSK}
done

Invoke as "pv.sh > outfile 2>errfile"

This approach will capture all the "good" LVM disks and will send errors on all the "bad" disks (ie those that are no LVM disks or CD-ROM's, etc.) to an error file.

[Mridul Shrivastava]

Try
pvdisplay /dev/dsk/*

[BPatrick]

Hi Ray,

You can try this command

#ioscan -fnC disk | grep "/dev/dsk" | awk '{print $1}' > /tmp/allpv


Regards

Patrick

[BPatrick]

sorry to miss pvdisplay

ioscan -fnC disk | grep "/dev/dsk" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs pvdisplay
>/tmp/allpv

[Ray Allen_1]

Sundar's command and A. Clay script worked perfect.

Thanks all.

[Ray Allen_1]

Thanks everyone for your responses.