vgscan
Scan for volume groups on all supported Logical Volume Manager (LVM) block devices. See alsolvm,vgchange. More information: https://manned.org/vgscan.
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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
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