PVSCAN(8)PVSCAN(8)NAMEpvscan - scan all disks for physical volumes
SYNOPSISpvscan [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [--version] [--ignore‐
lockingfailure] [-e|--exported] [-n|--novolumegroup] [-s|--short]
[-u|--uuid]
pvscan [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] --cache [-a|--activate ay] [-b|--back‐
ground] [--major major --minor minor | DevicePath | major:minor]...
DESCRIPTIONpvscan 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, auto‐
matically 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_activa‐
tion_volume_list set in lvm.conf. If this list is not set, then
all volumes are considered for autoactivation. The autoactiva‐
tion 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 ALSOlvm(8), lvmetad(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8)Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.106(2) (2014-04-10) PVSCAN(8)