lvmdiskscan - scan for all devices visible to LVM2 lvmdiskscan [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [-l|--lvmpartition] [-v|--verbose] lvmdiskscan scans all SCSI, (E)IDE disks, multiple devices and a bunch of other block devices in the system looking for LVM physical volumes. The size reported is the real device size. Define a filter in lvm.conf(5) to restrict the scan to avoid a CD ROM, for example. See lvm for common options.

-l, --lvmpartition Only reports Physical Volumes.

lvm (8), lvm.conf (5), pvscan (8), vgscan (8)