NAME¶
pvscan — scan all disks for physical volumes
SYNOPSIS¶
pvscan [
--commandprofile ProfileName]
[
-d|
--debug] [
-h|
--help]
[
-v|
--verbose] [
--version]
[
--ignorelockingfailure] [
-e|
--exported]
[
-n|
--novolumegroup] [
-s|
--short]
[
-u|
--uuid]
pvscan [
-d|
--debug] [
-h|
--help]
--cache [
-a|
--activate ay]
[
-b|
--background] [
--major major --minor
minor |
DevicePath |
major:minor]...
DESCRIPTION¶
pvscan scans all supported LVM block devices in the system for physical volumes.
OPTIONS¶
See
lvm(8) for common options.
- -e, --exported
- Only show physical volumes belonging to exported volume groups.
- -n, --novolumegroup
- Only show physical volumes not belonging to any volume group.
- -s, --short
- Short listing format.
- -u, --uuid
- Show UUIDs (Uniform Unique Identifiers) in addition to device special
names.
- -a, --activate ay
- Together with the information already cached in lvmetad, automatically
activate any logical volumes that become activatable after the scan done
on one or more devices. The logical volume to autoactivate is matched
against the activation/auto_activation_volume_list set in lvm.conf. If
this list is not set, then all volumes are considered for autoactivation.
The autoactivation is not yet supported for logical volumes that are part
of partial or clustered volume groups.
- -b, --background
- Run the command in the background.
- --cache [--major major
--minor minor |
DevicePath |
major:minor ]...
- Scan one or more devices and instruct the lvmetad daemon to update its
cached state accordingly. Called internally by udev rules. All devices
listed explicitly are processed regardless of any device filters
set using devices/filter configuration setting. To filter devices
even in this case, the devices/global_filter must be used. If
lvmetad has not yet cached any metadata or the filters have recently been
changed, then all devices may be scanned, effectively ignoring the rest of
the command line. Otherwise, if all the devices referenced on the command
line contain metadata in the default lvm2 format, other devices are not
accessed. If metadata written using the obsolete GFS pool format is
encountered, this is ignored and so lvmetad should not be used.
SEE ALSO¶
lvm(8),
lvmetad(8),
pvcreate(8),
pvdisplay(8)