Description of problem: "vgdisplay -c" reports 2x size in field 13 (physical extent size) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Base system is RHEL3 Update5 but lvm is updated to current... [root@sneezy root]# rpm -q lvm lvm-1.0.8-14 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. On a system with LVM enabled, type... 2. vgdisplay # To see PE size 3. vgdisplay -c | cut -d: -f13 # to get scriptable version of step 2 Actual results: field 13 is 2x the size of the PE field of `vgdisplay` Expected results: field 13 should equal in size the PE field of `vgdisplay` Additional info: [root@sneezy root]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 5) [root@sneezy root]# rpm -q lvm lvm-1.0.8-14 [root@sneezy root]# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name Volume00 VG Access read/write VG Status available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 5 Open LV 5 MAX LV Size 255.99 GB Max PV 256 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 14.21 GB PE Size 4 MB Total PE 3637 Alloc PE / Size 2250 / 8.79 GB Free PE / Size 1387 / 5.42 GB VG UUID jxoR8V-uNTl-Qv2B-X8d9-QISo-oh17-jPIydH [root@sneezy root]# vgdisplay -c | cut -d: -f13 8192 [root@sneezy root]#
*** Bug 188566 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
At this point in RHEL3 changing this does not seem worthwhile.