man pvscan () - scan all disks for physical volumes
NAME
pvscan - scan all disks for physical volumes
SYNOPSIS
pvscan [-d|--debug] [-e|--exported] [-h|--help] [-n|--novolumegroup] [-s|--short] [-u|--uuid] [-v[v]|--verbose [--verbose]]
DESCRIPTION
pvscan scans all supported LVM block devices in the system for physical volumes.
OPTIONS
- -d, --debug
- Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).
- -e, --exported
- Only show physical volumes belonging to exported volume groups.
- -h, --help
- Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- -n, --novolumegroup
- Only show physical volumes not belonging to any volume group.
- -s, --short
- Short listing format.
- -u, --uuid
- Show UUIDs (Unifrom Unique Identifiers) in addition to device special names.
- -v, --verbose
- Gives verbose runtime information about pvscan's activities. If given a second time it displays the attributes of found physical volumes like pvdisplay(8) does.
DIAGNOSTICS
pvscan returns an exit code of 0 for success or >0 for error:
1 error reading physical volumes 2 no physical volumes found
95 driver/module not in kernel 96 invalid I/O protocol version 97 error locking logical volume manager 98 invalid lvmtab (run vgscan(8)) 99 invalid command line
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Heinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com>