[Bug 1280037] [NEW] pvdisplay manpage incorrectly says kilobyte when it is really a count of 512b blocks

[Jay R. Wren]

Public bug reported:

when using the -c output of pvdisplay the man page says the value of the
third column is " * physical volume size in kilobytes"

It is not. The value is the size of the physical volume in 512byte
blocks.

This could lead an admin (me) to doing the wrong match and destroying
filesystems with LVM2 as a result.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: lvm2 2.02.98-6ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-11.17-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 13 19:34:39 2014
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lvm2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-08 (128 days ago)

** Affects: lvm2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy uec-images

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Title:
  pvdisplay manpage incorrectly says kilobyte when it is really a count
  of 512b blocks

Status in “lvm2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  when using the -c output of pvdisplay the man page says the value of
  the third column is " * physical volume size in kilobytes"

  It is not. The value is the size of the physical volume in 512byte
  blocks.

  This could lead an admin (me) to doing the wrong match and destroying
  filesystems with LVM2 as a result.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: lvm2 2.02.98-6ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-11.17-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Feb 13 19:34:39 2014
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: lvm2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-08 (128 days ago)

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