Hi Robert. On my fedora 19 and CentOS 6.4, that line is also missing. Steve On 11/18/2013 10:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > prepping to teach a first-level red hat admin course here in town > next week and, for the sake of efficiency (and laziness), i'm going to > use some of red hat's superb online manuals, and here's an oddity i > just ran across. > > here: > > https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/VG_remove_PV.html > > one is told that "pvdisplay" will indicate whether a physical volume > is currently in use, and if you look at the output there, you can see > the line: > > PV Status available > > but if i use that command on both ubuntu and fedora, i don't get that > line of output. is anyone else using LVM that can run that command and > see if their output matches what's on that page of the RH manual? i > just don't see a "PV Status" line (or a "PV#" line, either). > > rday >