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NAME

       pvscan - List all physical volumes

SYNOPSIS

       pvscan option_args
           [ option_args ]
           [ position_args ]

DESCRIPTION

       When called without the --cache option, pvscan lists PVs on the system, like pvs(8) or pvdisplay(8).

       When  the  --cache  and  -aay options are used, pvscan records which PVs are available on the system, and
       activates LVs in completed VGs.  A VG is complete when pvscan sees that  the  final  PV  in  the  VG  has
       appeared.  This is used by event-based system startup (systemd, udev) to activate LVs.

       The four main variations of this are:

       pvscan --cache device

       If  device  is present, lvm adds a record that the PV on device is online.  If device is not present, lvm
       removes the online record for the PV.  In most cases, the pvscan will only read the named devices.

       pvscan --cache -aay device...

       This begins by performing the same steps as above.   Afterward,  if  the  VG  for  the  specified  PV  is
       complete, then pvscan will activate LVs in the VG (the same as vgchange -aay vgname would do.)

       pvscan --cache

       This  first clears all existing PV online records, then scans all devices on the system, adding PV online
       records for any PVs that are found.

       pvscan --cache -aay

       This begins by performing the same steps as pvscan --cache.  Afterward, it activates LVs in any  complete
       VGs.

       To  prevent  devices from being scanned by pvscan --cache, add them to lvm.conf(5) devices/global_filter.
       For more information, see:
       lvmconfig --withcomments devices/global_filter

       Auto-activation of VGs or LVs can be enabled/disabled using:
       lvm.conf(5) activation/auto_activation_volume_list

       For more information, see:
       lvmconfig --withcomments activation/auto_activation_volume_list

       To disable auto-activation, explicitly set this list to an empty list, i.e. auto_activation_volume_list =
       [ ].

       When this setting is undefined (e.g. commented), then all LVs are auto-activated.

USAGE

       Display PV information.

       pvscan
           [ -e|--exported ]
           [ -n|--novolumegroup ]
           [ -s|--short ]
           [ -u|--uuid ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]

       Autoactivate a VG when all PVs are online.

       pvscan --cache
           [ -a|--activate ay ]
           [ -j|--major Number ]
           [    --minor Number ]
           [    --noudevsync ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
           [ String|PV ... ]

       Common options for command:
           [    --ignorelockingfailure ]
           [    --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 ]
           [    --lockopt String ]
           [    --longhelp ]
           [    --nolocking ]
           [    --profile String ]
           [    --version ]

OPTIONS

       -a|--activate y|n|ay
              Auto-activate LVs in a VG when the PVs scanned have completed the VG.  (Only ay is applicable.)

       --cache
              Scan one or more devices and record that they are online.

       --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.

       -e|--exported
              Only show PVs belonging to exported VGs.

       -h|--help
              Display help text.

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

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

       --longhelp
              Display long help text.

       -j|--major Number
              The major number of a device.

       --minor Number
              The minor number of a device.

       --nolocking
              Disable locking.

       --noudevsync
              Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for notification from udev. It will
              continue irrespective of any possible udev processing in the background. Only use this if udev is
              not running or has rules that ignore the devices LVM creates.

       -n|--novolumegroup
              Only show PVs not belonging to any VG.

       --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'.

       --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.

       -s|--short
              Short listing format.

       -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.

       -u|--uuid
              Show UUIDs in addition to device names.

       -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

       PV
              Physical Volume name, a device path under /dev.  For commands  managing  physical  extents,  a  PV
              positional  arg  generally  accepts  a  suffix indicating a range (or multiple ranges) of physical
              extents (PEs). When the first PE is omitted, it defaults to the start of the device, and when  the
              last  PE is omitted it defaults to end.  Start and end range (inclusive): PV[:PE-PE]...  Start and
              length range (counting from 0): PV[:PE+PE]...

       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

       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

       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) lvmpolld(8) lvmlockd(8) lvmlockctl(8) cmirrord(8) lvmdbusd(8)

       lvmsystemid(7) lvmreport(7) lvmraid(7) lvmthin(7) lvmcache(7)