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vgscan

Scan for volume groups on all supported Logical Volume Manager (LVM) block devices.

See also `lvm`, `vgchange`.

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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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