vgscan

Scan and display volume groups in the system

Supplementary instructions

vgscan command searches for LVM volume groups that exist in the system and displays the list of found volume groups. The vgscan command only displays the name and LVM metadata type of the found volume group. To obtain detailed information about the volume group, you need to use the vgdisplay command.

grammar

vgscan(options)

Options

-d: debug mode;
--ignorerlockingfailure: Ignore locking failure errors.

Example

Use the vgscan command to scan all volume groups in the system. Enter the following command at the command line:

[root@localhost ~]# vgscan #Scan and display the LVM volume group list

The output information is as follows:

Found volume group "vg2000" using metadata type lvm2
Found volume group "vg1000" using metadata type lvm2

Note: In this example, the vgscan command found two LVM2 volume groups "vg1000" and "vg2000".