LVMDISKSCAN(8)

NAME
lvmdiskscan - scan for all disks / multiple devices / partitions available

SYNOPSIS
lvmdiskscan [-d/--debug] [-h/-?/--help] [-l/--lvmpartitions] [-v/--verbose]

DESCRIPTION
To give an overview about online peripherals usable to LVM, lvmdiskscan scans all SCSI, (E)IDE disks and multiple devices in the system and lists them on standard output with name, size and type (text/hex).

  OPTIONS

-d/--debug
    Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).

-h/-?/--help
    Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.

-l/--lvmpartition
    Gives overview about all LVM system identified partitions only.

-v/--verbose
    Gives verbose runtime information about pvscan's activities.

DIAGNOSTICS
lvmdiskscan returns an exit state of 0, if disks / multiple devices / partitions where found and > 0 for error:
1  no special files found
2  no disks / multiple devices / disk partitions found
95 driver/module not in kernel
96 invalid i/o protocol version
97 error locking logical volume manager
98 invalid lvmtab (run vgscan(8))
99 invalid command line

See also
lvm(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), pvscan(8)

AUTHOR
Heinz Mauelshagen <linux-lvm@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de>