[linux-lvm] how to learn number of stripes on logical volume?

Norman Ramsey nr at eecs.harvard.edu
Fri Aug 18 00:32:54 UTC 2006


 > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 16:19 -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote:
 > > I'm using LVM2 under Debian.  I have a logical volume 
 > > created by the Debian installer, and I'd like to know if it
 > > is striped.  How can I find out?
 > > 
 > > I tried 'lvdisplay -v' and 'vgdisplay -v', but neither
 > > shows the number of stripes on a logical volume (I tried
 > > with a newly created LV with two stripes, but the information
 > > is not shown).
 > 
 > Have you tried 'lvs -v' ?
 > It has something called "segments" but since I don't have a striped
 > volumes to test it with I can't be sure that's what you want.

I'm afraid 'segments' is not it. 
No information about stripes is there.


Norman




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