NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | USAGE | OPTIONS | VARIABLES | ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

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

NAME         top

       lvscan - List all logical volumes in all volume groups

SYNOPSIS         top

       lvscan option_args
           [ option_args ]
           [ position_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 ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
       lvscan --cache
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
           [ LV ... ]
       Common options for command:
           [ -b|--blockdevice ]
           [    --ignorelockingfailure ]
           [    --readonly ]
           [    --reportformat basic|json ]
       Common options for lvm:
           [ -d|--debug ]
           [ -h|--help ]
           [ -q|--quiet ]
           [ -t|--test ]
           [ -v|--verbose ]
           [ -y|--yes ]
           [    --commandprofile String ]
           [    --config String ]
           [    --driverloaded y|n ]
           [    --longhelp ]
           [    --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.
       --cache
              Scan the devices used by an LV and send the metadata to
              lvmetad.
       --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
              settings.  The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf, 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).
       --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.
       --longhelp
              Display long help text.
       --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.  It can also be
              used to peek inside the metadata of clustered VGs when
              clustered locking is not configured or 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.
              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

       LV
              Logical Volume name.  See lvm(8) for valid names.  An LV
              positional arg generally includes the VG name and LV name,
              e.g. VG/LV.
       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: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE.
              b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is kilobytes,
              m|M is megabytes, g|G is gigabytes, t|T is terabytes, p|P is
              petabytes, e|E is exabytes.  (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)
       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) 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) lvm2-activation-generator(8)
       blkdeactivate(8) lvmdump(8)
       dmeventd(8) lvmetad(8) lvmpolld(8) lvmlockd(8) lvmlockctl(8) clvmd(8)
       cmirrord(8) lvmdbusd(8)
       lvmsystemid(7) lvmreport(7) lvmraid(7) lvmthin(7) lvmcache(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
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Red Hat, Inc.      LVM TOOLS 2.02.173(2)-git (2017-06-28)          LVSCAN(8)

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