root@1[tmp]# cat bigben.bak
# Generated by LVM2: Fri Jun 29 18:49:34 2007

contents = "Text Format Volume Group"
version = 1

description = "vgcfgbackup -P -f /tmp/bigben.bak bigben"

creation_host = "Knoppix"       # Linux Knoppix 2.6.17 #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 10 13:53:45 CEST 2006 i686
creation_time = 1183157374      # Fri Jun 29 18:49:34 2007

bigben {
        id = "M84Zyu-BTOq-3kjn-XoYy-Z6Va-rB3M-d7GC1w"
        seqno = 2
        status = ["RESIZEABLE", "PARTIAL", "READ"]
        extent_size = 8192              # 4 Megabytes
        max_lv = 0
        max_pv = 0

        physical_volumes {

                pv0 {
                        id = "IU81xD-pkEG-BSAM-Sma0-x69a-xJj0-pUet4e"
                        device = "unknown device"       # Hint only

                        status = ["ALLOCATABLE"]
                        pe_start = 384
                        pe_count = 59194        # 231.227 Gigabytes
                }

                pv1 {
                        id = "ijxrem-1Mg4-NQDc-2GbJ-F78x-7ycJ-VJobpS"
                        device = "/dev/sda1"    # Hint only

                        status = ["ALLOCATABLE"]
                        pe_start = 384
                        pe_count = 59618        # 232.883 Gigabytes
                }

                pv2 {
                        id = "BdWBC7-POXw-bkyI-B3n8-tDuT-he7z-Ro3MqF"
                        device = "/dev/sdb1"    # Hint only

                        status = ["ALLOCATABLE"]
                        pe_start = 384
                        pe_count = 59618        # 232.883 Gigabytes
                }

                pv3 {
                        id = "D9kOV6-zVVp-Upe1-XHW1-Wlq6-3sqp-Qdxd2o"
                        device = "/dev/sdc1"    # Hint only

                        status = ["ALLOCATABLE"]
                        pe_start = 384
                        pe_count = 59618        # 232.883 Gigabytes
                }
        }

        logical_volumes {

                bigben1 {
                        id = "bRudbm-OMKG-55fh-SBdv-akfX-jDf1-12093P"
                        status = ["READ", "WRITE", "VISIBLE"]
                        segment_count = 4

                        segment1 {
                                start_extent = 0
                                extent_count = 59618    # 232.883 Gigabytes

                                type = "striped"
                                stripe_count = 1        # linear

                                stripes = [
                                        "pv1", 0
                                ]
                        }
                        segment2 {
                                start_extent = 59618
                                extent_count = 59618    # 232.883 Gigabytes

                                type = "striped"
                                stripe_count = 1        # linear

                                stripes = [
                                        "pv2", 0
                                ]
                        }
                        segment3 {
                                start_extent = 119236
                                extent_count = 59618    # 232.883 Gigabytes

                                type = "striped"
                                stripe_count = 1        # linear

                                stripes = [
                                        "pv3", 0
                                ]
                        }
                        segment4 {
                                start_extent = 178854
                                extent_count = 59194    # 231.227 Gigabytes

                                type = "striped"
                                stripe_count = 1        # linear

                                stripes = [
                                        "pv0", 0
                                ]
                        }
                }
        }
}
root@1[tmp]#