vgscan

linux

Scan for volume groups on all supported Logical Volume Manager (LVM) block devices. See also: `lvm`, `vgchange`.

Examples (2)

Scan for volume groups and print information about each group found

sudo vgscan

Scan for volume groups and add the special files in `/dev`, if they don't already exist, needed to access the logical volumes in the found groups

sudo vgscan --mknodes