From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4993 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2009 19:42:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 4979 invoked by uid 9657); 14 Sep 2009 19:42:14 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:42:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20090914194214.4977.qmail@sourceware.org> From: wysochanski@sourceware.org To: lvm-devel@redhat.com, lvm2-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: LVM2/man lvm.8.in vgs.8.in Mailing-List: contact lvm2-cvs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: lvm2-cvs-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00046.txt.bz2 CVSROOT: /cvs/lvm2 Module name: LVM2 Changes by: wysochanski@sourceware.org 2009-09-14 19:42:13 Modified files: man : lvm.8.in vgs.8.in Log message: Update lvm and vgs man pages to clarify 'partial' is a VG missing PVs. Patches: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/man/lvm.8.in.diff?cvsroot=lvm2&r1=1.3&r2=1.4 http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/man/vgs.8.in.diff?cvsroot=lvm2&r1=1.9&r2=1.10 --- LVM2/man/lvm.8.in 2009/05/14 16:46:13 1.3 +++ LVM2/man/lvm.8.in 2009/09/14 19:42:13 1.4 @@ -182,8 +182,9 @@ .TP \fB-P | --partial\fP When set, the tools will do their best to provide access to volume groups -that are only partially available. Where part of a logical volume is -missing, \fB/dev/ioerror\fP will be substituted, and you could use +that are only partially available (one or more physical volumes belonging +to the volume group are missing from the system). Where part of a logical +volume is missing, \fB/dev/ioerror\fP will be substituted, and you could use \fBdmsetup (8)\fP to set this up to return I/O errors when accessed, or create it as a large block device of nulls. Metadata may not be changed with this option. To insert a replacement physical volume --- LVM2/man/vgs.8.in 2009/07/07 19:28:57 1.9 +++ LVM2/man/vgs.8.in 2009/09/14 19:42:13 1.10 @@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ .IP 3 3 E(x)ported .IP 4 3 -(p)artial +(p)artial: one or more physical volumes belonging to the volume group +are missing from the system .IP 5 3 Allocation policy: (c)ontiguous, c(l)ing, (n)ormal, (a)nywhere, (i)nherited .IP 6 3