man/lvscan.8.in

   1 .TH LVSCAN 8 "LVM TOOLS #VERSION#" "Sistina Software UK" \" -*- nroff -*-
   2 .SH NAME
   3 lvscan \- scan (all disks) for Logical Volumes
   4 .SH SYNOPSIS
   5 .B lvscan
   6 .RB [ \-a | \-\-all]
   7 .RB [ \-b | \-\-blockdevice ]
   8 .RB [ \-d | \-\-debug ]
   9 .RB [ \-h | \-\-help ]
  10 .RB [ \-\-ignorelockingfailure ]
  11 .RB [ \-P | \-\-partial ]
  12 .RB [ \-v | \-\-verbose ]
  13 .SH DESCRIPTION
  14 lvscan scans all known volume groups or all supported LVM block devices
  15 in the system for defined Logical Volumes.  The output consists
  16 of one line for each Logical Volume indicating whether or not it is active,
  17 a snapshot or origin, the size of the device and its allocation policy.
  18 Use \fBlvs\fP(8) or \fBlvdisplay\fP(8) to obtain more-comprehensive
  19 information about the Logical Volumes.
  20 .SH OPTIONS
  21 See \fBlvm\fP(8) for common options.
  22 .TP
  23 .BR \-\-all
  24 Include information in the output about internal Logical Volumes that
  25 are components of normally-accessible Logical Volumes, such as mirrors,
  26 but which are not independently accessible (e.g. not mountable).
  27 For example, after creating a mirror using
  28 .B lvcreate \-m1 \-\-mirrorlog disk\fR,
  29 this option will reveal three internal Logical Volumes, with suffixes
  30 mimage_0, mimage_1, and mlog.
  31 .TP
  32 .BR \-b ", " \-\-blockdevice
  33 This option is now ignored.  Instead, use \fBlvs\fP(8) or
  34 \fBlvdisplay\fP(8) to obtain the device number.
  35 .SH SEE ALSO
  36 .BR lvm (8),
  37 .BR lvcreate (8),
  38 .BR lvdisplay (8)
  39 .BR lvs (8)