Pvscan

pvscan is a LVM command to list all physical volumes. For scanning for new LUNs use: rescan-scsi-bus.sh

pvscan
 No matching physical volumes found

pvscan -v
   Wiping internal VG cache
   Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
  No matching physical volumes found

• pvscan -vvv
• pvscan --cache
• pvscan --cache --activate ay 256:10

 pvscan
 PV /dev/sdb2                                       VG VG_NAME1        lvm2 [<446.60 GiB / 32.00 MiB free]
 PV /dev/sdc                                        VG VG_NAME2   lvm2 [<9.10 TiB / 0    free]
 WARNING: Device /dev/mapper/3600a09803831417a5a244f5665797a4d has size of 8804682957 sectors which is smaller than corresponding PV size of 12884901888 sectors. Was device resized?
 One or more devices used as PVs in VG VG_NAME1 have changed sizes.
 PV /dev/mapper/3600a09803831417a5a244f5665797a4d   VG VG_NAME2      lvm2 [<6.00 TiB / <2.00 TiB free]
 Total: 3 [15.53 TiB] / in use: 3 [15.53 TiB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]

Related commands

• lvmdiskscan

See also

• Block devices: blkid (UUID), lshw -class disk, hwinfo --disk, udevadm, rescan-scsi-bus.sh, LUN, hdparm, findfs, Add a new disk
• lsblk, pvscan lspci, lsscsi, smartctl, fdisk, parted, Kpartx, pvdiplay, pvs, udisksctl, /dev/sd, nvme list
• Fibre Channel: SAN, HBA, LUN, WWN, WWPN, LIF, rescan-scsi-bus.sh
• LVM: LVM errors LVM scan commands lkvmetad, Add a new disk

scan: pvscan vgscan

LVM: lvs lvmscan lvm fullreport lvmreport lvmconfig lvmdump lvmcheck lvm dumpconfig

Scan: pvs vgs lvs pvscan vgscan

PV: pvcreate pvremove pvscan pvremove pvscan pvs pvchange pvck pvdisplay pvresize

LV: lvdisplay lvcreate lvremove, lvresize, lvextend, lvreduce, lvrename

VG: vgdisplay,vgcreate,vgremove, vgextend, vgreduce, vgscan, vgchange, vgrename, vgcfgbackup, vgcfgrestore, vgimportclone, vgck

Check commands: pvck vgck