VGScan - Scan Linux Volume Groups | Online Free DevTools by Hexmos

Scan Linux volume groups with VGScan. Discover LVM block devices and activate volume groups with ease. Free online tool, no registration required.

vgscan

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

  • 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