VGIMPORTDEVICES(8)

NAME
vgimportdevices — Add devices for a VG to the devices file

SYNOPSIS

vgimportdevices option_args position_args
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DESCRIPTION
vgimportdevices adds PVs from a VG to the devices file. This is similar to using lvmdevices --adddev to add each PV to the devices file individually. vgimportdevices will also update the VG metadata to include the device IDs of each PV. vgimportdevices will create a new devices file if none exists.

When a devices file is used, the regex filter is ignored, except in the case of vgimportdevices which will apply the regex filter when looking for the VGs to import to the devices file. Use vgimportdevices -a to import all VGs on a system to the devices file.

USAGE
Add devices from specific VGs to the devices file.

vgimportdevices VG|Tag|Select ...
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Add devices from all accessible VGs to the devices file.

vgimportdevices
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Add devices from root VG to the devices file.

vgimportdevices
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Common options for lvm:
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OPTIONS

This option is used when automatically importing devices for the root VG.
    The auto import is intended to be done once, on first boot, to create an initial system.devices file for the root VG. When this option is used, the vgimportdevices --rootvg command does nothing if system.devices exists, or the file auto-import-rootvg does not exist (both in the /etc/lvm/devices/ directory.)

The command profile to use for command configuration.
    See lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles.

Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf(5) settings.
    The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf(5), or may use section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more information about config.

Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail of
    messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if configured).

Restricts the devices that are visible and accessible to the command.
    Devices not listed will appear to be missing. This option can be repeated, or accepts a comma separated list of devices. This overrides the devices file.

A file listing devices that LVM should use.
    The file must exist in /etc/lvm/devices/ and is managed with the lvmdevices(8) command. This overrides the lvm.conf(5) devices/devicesfile and devices/use_devicesfile settings.

If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper.
    For testing and debugging.

Report/display foreign VGs that would otherwise be skipped.
    See lvmsystemid(7) for more information about foreign VGs.

Display help text.

Record information in the systemd journal.
    This information is in addition to information enabled by the lvm.conf log/journal setting. command: record information about the command. output: record the default command output. debug: record full command debugging.

Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd.
    See lvmlockd(8) for more information.

Display long help text.

Do not use the hints file to locate devices for PVs. A command may read
    more devices to find PVs when hints are not used. The command will still perform standard hint file invalidation where appropriate.

Disable locking. Use with caution, concurrent commands may produce
    incorrect results.

An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending
    on the command.

Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose.
    Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with answer 'no'.

Overrides current output format for reports which is defined globally by
    the report/output_format setting in lvm.conf(5). basic is the original format with columns and rows. If there is more than one report per command, each report is prefixed with the report name for identification. json produces report output in JSON format. json_std produces report output in JSON format which is more compliant with JSON standard. See lvmreport(7) for more information.

Import devices used for the root VG.

Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified criteria.
    The criteria syntax is described by --select help and lvmreport(7). For reporting commands, one row is displayed for each object matching the criteria. See --options help for selectable object fields. Rows can be displayed with an additional "selected" field (-o selected) showing 1 if the row matches the selection and 0 otherwise. For non-reporting commands which process LVM entities, the selection is used to choose items to process.

Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata.
    This is implemented by disabling all metadata writing but nevertheless returning success to the calling function. This may lead to unusual error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool relies on reading back metadata it believes has changed but hasn't.

Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the detail
    of messages sent to stdout and stderr.

Display version information.

Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the
    answer yes. Use with extreme caution. (For automatic no, see -qq.)

VARIABLES

VG  Volume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.

Tag Tag name. See lvm(8) for information about tag names and using tags in place of a VG, LV or PV.

Select
    Select indicates that a required positional parameter can be omitted if the --select option is used. No arg appears in this position.

String
    See the option description for information about the string content.

Size[UNIT]
    Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT represents other possible input units: b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB, p|P is PiB, e|E is EiB. (This should not be confused with the output control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm. For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG parameter.

SEE ALSO
lvm(8), lvm.conf(5), lvmconfig(8), lvmdevices(8),

pvchange(8), pvck(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), pvmove(8), pvremove(8), pvresize(8), pvs(8), pvscan(8),

vgcfgbackup(8), vgcfgrestore(8), vgchange(8), vgck(8), vgcreate(8), vgconvert(8), vgdisplay(8), vgexport(8), vgextend(8), vgimport(8), vgimportclone(8), vgimportdevices(8), vgmerge(8), vgmknodes(8), vgreduce(8), vgremove(8), vgrename(8), vgs(8), vgscan(8), vgsplit(8),

lvcreate(8), lvchange(8), lvconvert(8), lvdisplay(8), lvextend(8), lvreduce(8), lvremove(8), lvrename(8), lvresize(8), lvs(8), lvscan(8),

lvm-fullreport(8), lvm-lvpoll(8), blkdeactivate(8), lvmdump(8),

dmeventd(8), lvmpolld(8), lvmlockd(8), lvmlockctl(8), cmirrord(8), lvmdbusd(8), fsadm(8),

lvmsystemid(7), lvmreport(7), lvmcache(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmvdo(7), lvmautoactivation(7)