LVMDISKSCAN

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: LVM TOOLS 2.02.53(1) (2009-09-25)
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NAME

lvmdiskscan - scan for all devices visible to LVM2  

SYNOPSIS

lvmdiskscan [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [-l|--lvmpartition] [-v|--verbose]  

DESCRIPTION

lvmdiskscan scans all SCSI, (E)IDE disks, multiple devices and a bunch of other block devices in the system looking for LVM physical volumes. The size reported is the real device size. Define a filter in lvm.conf(5) to restrict the scan to avoid a CD ROM, for example.  

OPTIONS

See lvm for common options.
-l, --lvmpartition
Only reports Physical Volumes.
 

SEE ALSO

lvm(8), lvm.conf(5), pvscan(8), vgscan(8)