-A, --activevolumegroups

Only select the active volume groups.

-c, --colon

Generate colon seperated output for easier parsing in scripts or programs.

The values are:

1 volume group name 2 volume group access 3 volume group status 4 internal volume group number 5 maximum number of logical volumes 6 current number of logical volumes 7 open count of all logical volumes in this volume group 8 maximum logical volume size 9 maximum number of physical volumes 10 current number of physical volumes 11 actual number of physical volumes 12 size of volume group in kilobytes 13 physical extent size 14 total number of physical extents for this volume group 15 allocated number of physical extents for this volume group 16 free number of physical extents for this volume group 17 uuid of volume group

-d, --debug

Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).

-D, --disk

Show attributes from the volume group descriptor area on disk(s). Without this switch they are shown from the kernel. Useful if the volume group isn't activated.

-h, --help

Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.

-s, --short

Give a short listing showing the existence of volume groups.

-v, --verbose

Display verbose information containing long listings of physical and logical volumes. If given twice, also display verbose runtime information of vgdisplay's activities.

--version

Display version and exit successfully.