lvscan(8) — Linux manual page

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LVSCAN(8)                System Manager's Manual               LVSCAN(8)

NAME         top

       lvscan — List all logical volumes in all volume groups

SYNOPSIS         top

       lvscan
           [ option_args ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       lvscan scans all VGs or all supported LVM block devices in the
       system for LVs. The output consists of one line for each LV
       indicating whether or not it is active, a snapshot or origin, the
       size of the device and its allocation policy. Use lvs(8) or
       lvdisplay(8) to obtain more comprehensive information about LVs.

USAGE         top

       lvscan
           [ -a|--all ]
           [ -b|--blockdevice ]
           [    --ignorelockingfailure ]
           [    --readonly ]
           [    --reportformat basic|json ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]

       Common options for lvm:
           [ -d|--debug ]
           [ -h|--help ]
           [ -q|--quiet ]
           [ -t|--test ]
           [ -v|--verbose ]
           [ -y|--yes ]
           [    --commandprofile String ]
           [    --config String ]
           [    --devices PV ]
           [    --devicesfile String ]
           [    --driverloaded y|n ]
           [    --journal String ]
           [    --lockopt String ]
           [    --longhelp ]
           [    --nohints ]
           [    --nolocking ]
           [    --profile String ]
           [    --version ]

OPTIONS         top


       -a|--all
              Show information about internal LVs.  These are components
              of   normal   LVs,   such   as   mirrors,  which  are  not
              independently accessible, e.g. not mountable.

       -b|--blockdevice
              No longer used.

       --commandprofile String
              The command profile to use for command configuration.  See
              lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles.

       --config String
              Config  settings   for   the   command.   These   override
              lvm.conf(5) settings.  The String arg uses the same format
              as  lvm.conf(5),  or  may  use  section/field syntax.  See
              lvm.conf(5) for more information about config.

       -d|--debug ...
              Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase  the
              detail  of messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if
              configured).

       --devices PV
              Devices that the command  can  use.  This  option  can  be
              repeated  or  accepts  a  comma separated list of devices.
              This overrides the devices file.

       --devicesfile String
              A file listing devices that LVM should use.  The file must
              exist  in  /etc/lvm/devices/  and  is  managed  with   the
              lvmdevices(8)  command.   This  overrides  the lvm.conf(5)
              devices/devicesfile and devices/use_devicesfile  settings.

       --driverloaded y|n
              If  set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-
              mapper.  For testing and debugging.

       -h|--help
              Display help text.

       --ignorelockingfailure
              Allows a  command  to  continue  with  read-only  metadata
              operations after locking failures.

       --journal String
              Record   information   in   the   systemd  journal.   This
              information is in addition to information enabled  by  the
              lvm.conf log/journal setting.  command: record information
              about  the  command.   output:  record the default command
              output.  debug: record full command debugging.

       --lockopt String
              Used to pass options for special cases to  lvmlockd.   See
              lvmlockd(8) for more information.

       --longhelp
              Display long help text.

       --nohints
              Do  not  use  the  hints file to locate devices for PVs. A
              command may read more devices to find PVs when  hints  are
              not  used.  The  command  will still perform standard hint
              file invalidation where appropriate.

       --nolocking
              Disable locking.

       --profile String
              An  alias  for  --commandprofile   or   --metadataprofile,
              depending on the command.

       -q|--quiet ...
              Suppress  output  and  log messages. Overrides --debug and
              --verbose.  Repeat once to also suppress any prompts  with
              answer 'no'.

       --readonly
              Run  the  command  in  a special read-only mode which will
              read on-disk metadata without needing to take  any  locks.
              This can be used to peek inside metadata used by a virtual
              machine  image  while  the  virtual machine is running. No
              attempt will be made to communicate with the device-mapper
              kernel driver, so this option is unable to report  whether
              or not LVs are actually in use.

       --reportformat basic|json
              Overrides  current  output  format  for  reports  which is
              defined globally by the  report/output_format  setting  in
              lvm.conf(5).   basic  is  the original format with columns
              and rows.  If there is more than one report  per  command,
              each   report   is  prefixed  with  the  report  name  for
              identification.  json  produces  report  output  in   JSON
              format. See lvmreport(7) for more information.

       -t|--test
              Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata.  This
              is  implemented  by  disabling  all  metadata  writing but
              nevertheless returning success to  the  calling  function.
              This  may  lead  to  unusual error messages in multi-stage
              operations if a tool relies on reading  back  metadata  it
              believes has changed but hasn't.

       -v|--verbose ...
              Set  verbose  level.  Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase
              the detail of messages sent to stdout and stderr.

       --version
              Display version information.

       -y|--yes
              Do not prompt for confirmation  interactively  but  always
              assume  the  answer  yes.  Use with extreme caution.  (For
              automatic no, see -qq.)

VARIABLES         top

       String See the option description for information about the
              string content.

       Size[UNIT]
              Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit.
              Input units are always treated as base two values,
              regardless of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer
              to 1024.  The default input unit is specified by letter,
              followed by |UNIT.  UNIT represents other possible input
              units: b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is
              KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB, p|P is PiB, e|E
              is EiB.  (This should not be confused with the output
              control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of
              1000.)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES         top

       See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by
       lvm.  For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a
       required VG parameter.

SEE ALSO         top

       lvm(8), lvm.conf(5), lvmconfig(8), lvmdevices(8),

       pvchange(8), pvck(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), pvmove(8),
       pvremove(8), pvresize(8), pvs(8), pvscan(8),

       vgcfgbackup(8), vgcfgrestore(8), vgchange(8), vgck(8),
       vgcreate(8), vgconvert(8), vgdisplay(8), vgexport(8),
       vgextend(8), vgimport(8), vgimportclone(8), vgimportdevices(8),
       vgmerge(8), vgmknodes(8), vgreduce(8), vgremove(8), vgrename(8),
       vgs(8), vgscan(8), vgsplit(8),

       lvcreate(8), lvchange(8), lvconvert(8), lvdisplay(8),
       lvextend(8), lvreduce(8), lvremove(8), lvrename(8), lvresize(8),
       lvs(8), lvscan(8),

       lvm-fullreport(8), lvm-lvpoll(8), blkdeactivate(8), lvmdump(8),

       dmeventd(8), lvmpolld(8), lvmlockd(8), lvmlockctl(8),
       cmirrord(8), lvmdbusd(8), fsadm(8),

       lvmsystemid(7), lvmreport(7), lvmcache(7), lvmraid(7),
       lvmthin(7), lvmvdo(7), lvmautoactivation(7)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the lvm2 (Logical Volume Manager 2) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://www.sourceware.org/lvm2/⟩.  If you have a bug report for
       this manual page, see ⟨https://github.com/lvmteam/lvm2/issues⟩.
       This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨git://sourceware.org/git/lvm2.git⟩ on 2024-06-14.  (At that
       time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
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Red Hat, Inc.     LVM TOOLS 2.03.25(2)-git (2024-05-16)        LVSCAN(8)

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