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 2025-02-02.  (At that time,
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Red Hat, Inc.     LVM TOOLS 2.03.31(2)-git (2025-01-14)         LVSCAN(8)

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