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Manual Reference Pages  - PVCHANGE (8)

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pvchange - change attributes of a physical volume

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pvchange [--addtag Tag] [-A|--autobackup y|n] [-d|--debug] [--deltag Tag] [-h|-?|--help] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] [-a|--all] [-x|--allocatable y|n] [-u|--uuid] [PhysicalVolumePath...]

pvchange allows you to change the allocation permissions of one or more physical volumes.

See lvm for common options.

-a, --all	If PhysicalVolumePath is not specified on the command line all physical volumes are searched for and used.
-u, --uuid	Generate new random UUID for specified physical volumes.
-x, --allocatable y|n
	Enable or disable allocation of physical extents on this physical volume.

"pvchange -x n /dev/sdk1" disallows the allocation of physical extents on this physical volume (possibly because of disk errors, or because it will be removed after freeing it.

lvm(8), pvcreate(8)

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