LVMCHANGE(8)

NAME
lvmchange - change attributes of the logical volume manager

SYNOPSIS
lvmchange [-d/--debug] [-f/--force] [-h/-?/--help] [-R/--reset] [-v/--verbose]

DESCRIPTION
lvmchange allows you to reset the logical volume manager. Please be careful to have all logical volumes closed and/or unused!

  OPTIONS

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

-f, --force
    Force the action without any question.

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

-R, --reset
    Emergency reset of the logical volume manager. This function is a "last resort" if something goes wrong to unload the logical volume manager module. Not used in normal operation. Please be careful NOT to reset with logical volumes in use!!!

-v, --verbose
    Gives verbose information about lvmchange's activities.

Example
"lvmchange -fR" resets the logical volume manager without a question.

DIAGNOSTICS
lvmchange returns an exit state of 0 for success or > 0 for error:
1  error opening logical volume manager
2  error resetting logical volume manager
3  error changing read ahead sectors
95 driver/module not in kernel
96 invalid i/o protocol version
97 error locking logical volume manager
99 invalid command line

See also
lvm(8), vgcreate(8), lvcreate(8)

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