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Manpages VGSCANSection: Maintenance Commands (8)Updated: LVM TOOLS Index Return to Main Contents NAMEvgscan - scan all disks for volume groups and build /etc/lvmtab and /etc/lvmtab.d/* which are the database for all other lvm commands.SYNOPSISvgscan [-d|--debug] [-f|--forcenumbers] [-h|--help] [-r|--remove_snapshots [VolumeGroupName]] [-v|--verbose]DESCRIPTIONvgscan scans all SCSI, (E)IDE disks, multiple devices and a bunch of other disk devives in the system for volume groups defined.OPTIONS
HintPut vgscan in one of your system startup scripts. This gives you an actual logical volume manager database before activating all volume groups by doing a "vgchange -ay".DIAGNOSTICSvgscan returns an exit code of 0 for success and > 0 for error:1 error reading physical volumes 2 error inserting vokume group name into lvmtab 3 no volume group(s) found 4 error creating lvmtab 5 no or not enough free device specials to store volume group in lvmtab 6 error storing VGDA on disk(s) 7 reused LV device number 8 error releasing snapshot logical volume 95 driver/module not in kernel 96 invalid I/O protocol version 97 error locking logical volume manager 99 invalid command line See alsolvm(8), vgcreate(8), vgchange(8)AUTHORHeinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com>
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