lvscan Command Examples in Linux

Logical volumes (LVs) are block device units that we can use locally. We create LVs using the lvcreate command. An example is as follows:

# lvcreate -n web -L 100M iscsi

In order to display information about LVs on a system, we can use lvs or lvscan. The output of the sudo lvscan command is shown in the following screenshot:

lvscan Command Examples

1. To include information in the output about internal Logical Volumes:

# lvscan -a
# lvscan --all 

2. To Adds the device major and minor numbers to the display of each logical volume:

# lvscan -b
# lvscan --blockdevice 

3. To include debug info:

# lvscan -d
# lvscan --debug 

4. To get the help info:

# lvscan -h
# lvscan -?
# lvscan --help 

5. To ignore locking failure:

# lvscan --ignorelockingfailure 

6. To be verbose:

# lvscan -v
# lvscan --verbose 

7. To get the version:

# lvscan --version