$NetBSD: pvchange.8,v 1.2 2009/02/18 12:16:13 haad Exp $

pvchange - change attributes of a physical volume 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)