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LVMDISKSCAN(8) System Manager's Manual LVMDISKSCAN(8)
NAME top
lvmdiskscan — List devices that may be used as physical volumesSYNOPSIS top
**lvmdiskscan**
[ _optionargs_ ]DESCRIPTION top
lvmdiskscan scans all SCSI, (E)IDE disks, multiple devices and a
bunch of other block devices in the system looking for LVM PVs.
The size reported is the real device size. Define a filter in
[lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) to restrict the scan to avoid a CD ROM, for example.
This command is deprecated, use **pvs** instead.USAGE top
**lvmdiskscan**
[ **-l**|**--lvmpartition** ]
[ **--readonly** ]
[ 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
**--commandprofile** _String_
The command profile to use for command configuration. See
[lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) for more information about profiles.
**--config** _String_
Config settings for the command. These override [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html)
settings. The String arg uses the same format as
[lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html), or may use section/field syntax. See
[lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) 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)](../man8/lvmdevices.8.html) command. This overrides the [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html)
**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.
**--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)](../man8/lvmlockd.8.html) for more information.
**--longhelp**
Display long help text.
**-l**|**--lvmpartition**
Only report PVs.
**--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.
**-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)](../man8/lvm.8.html) 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)](../man8/lvm.8.html), [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html), [lvmconfig(8)](../man8/lvmconfig.8.html), [lvmdevices(8)](../man8/lvmdevices.8.html),
[pvchange(8)](../man8/pvchange.8.html), [pvck(8)](../man8/pvck.8.html), [pvcreate(8)](../man8/pvcreate.8.html), [pvdisplay(8)](../man8/pvdisplay.8.html), [pvmove(8)](../man8/pvmove.8.html),
[pvremove(8)](../man8/pvremove.8.html), [pvresize(8)](../man8/pvresize.8.html), [pvs(8)](../man8/pvs.8.html), [pvscan(8)](../man8/pvscan.8.html),
[vgcfgbackup(8)](../man8/vgcfgbackup.8.html), [vgcfgrestore(8)](../man8/vgcfgrestore.8.html), [vgchange(8)](../man8/vgchange.8.html), [vgck(8)](../man8/vgck.8.html),
[vgcreate(8)](../man8/vgcreate.8.html), [vgconvert(8)](../man8/vgconvert.8.html), [vgdisplay(8)](../man8/vgdisplay.8.html), [vgexport(8)](../man8/vgexport.8.html), [vgextend(8)](../man8/vgextend.8.html),
[vgimport(8)](../man8/vgimport.8.html), [vgimportclone(8)](../man8/vgimportclone.8.html), [vgimportdevices(8)](../man8/vgimportdevices.8.html), [vgmerge(8)](../man8/vgmerge.8.html),
[vgmknodes(8)](../man8/vgmknodes.8.html), [vgreduce(8)](../man8/vgreduce.8.html), [vgremove(8)](../man8/vgremove.8.html), [vgrename(8)](../man8/vgrename.8.html), [vgs(8)](../man8/vgs.8.html),
[vgscan(8)](../man8/vgscan.8.html), [vgsplit(8)](../man8/vgsplit.8.html),
[lvcreate(8)](../man8/lvcreate.8.html), [lvchange(8)](../man8/lvchange.8.html), [lvconvert(8)](../man8/lvconvert.8.html), [lvdisplay(8)](../man8/lvdisplay.8.html), [lvextend(8)](../man8/lvextend.8.html),
[lvreduce(8)](../man8/lvreduce.8.html), [lvremove(8)](../man8/lvremove.8.html), [lvrename(8)](../man8/lvrename.8.html), [lvresize(8)](../man8/lvresize.8.html), [lvs(8)](../man8/lvs.8.html),
[lvscan(8)](../man8/lvscan.8.html),
[lvm-fullreport(8)](../man8/lvm-fullreport.8.html), [lvm-lvpoll(8)](../man8/lvm-lvpoll.8.html), [blkdeactivate(8)](../man8/blkdeactivate.8.html), [lvmdump(8)](../man8/lvmdump.8.html),
[dmeventd(8)](../man8/dmeventd.8.html), [lvmpolld(8)](../man8/lvmpolld.8.html), [lvmlockd(8)](../man8/lvmlockd.8.html), [lvmlockctl(8)](../man8/lvmlockctl.8.html), [cmirrord(8)](../man8/cmirrord.8.html),
[lvmdbusd(8)](../man8/lvmdbusd.8.html), [fsadm(8)](../man8/fsadm.8.html),
[lvmsystemid(7)](../man7/lvmsystemid.7.html), [lvmreport(7)](../man7/lvmreport.7.html), [lvmcache(7)](../man7/lvmcache.7.html), [lvmraid(7)](../man7/lvmraid.7.html), [lvmthin(7)](../man7/lvmthin.7.html),
[lvmvdo(7)](../man7/lvmvdo.7.html), [lvmautoactivation(7)](../man7/lvmautoactivation.7.html)COLOPHON top
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