suse man page for lvscan

LVSCAN(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 LVSCAN(8)

NAME
       lvscan - scan (all disks) for logical volumes

SYNOPSIS
       lvscan [-a|--all] [-b|--blockdevice] [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure] [-P|--partial] [-v|--verbose]

DESCRIPTION
       lvscan scans all known volume groups or all supported LVM block devices in the system for defined logical volumes.

OPTIONS
       See lvm for common options.

       --all  Include information in the output about internal Logical Volumes that are components of normally-accessible Logical Volumes, such as
	      mirrors, but which are not independently accessible (e.g. not mountable).  For example, after creating a mirror using 'lvcreate  -m1
	      --mirrorlog disk', this option will reveal three internal Logical Volumes, with suffixes mimage_0, mimage_1, and mlog.

       -b, --blockdevice
	      Adds the device major and minor numbers to the display of each logical volume.

SEE ALSO
       lvm(8), lvcreate(8), lvdisplay(8)

Sistina Software UK					 LVM TOOLS 2.02.67(2) (2010-06-04)						 LVSCAN(8)