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authorPetr Rockai <prockai@redhat.com>2010-10-13 10:34:31 +0000
committerPetr Rockai <prockai@redhat.com>2010-10-13 10:34:31 +0000
commit49908a9a332039eef8c2ba2a6e8616fa6f28e20d (patch)
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parent7dddc57bde6ef986a2016c662fcc14604cfd2c72 (diff)
downloadlvm2-49908a9a332039eef8c2ba2a6e8616fa6f28e20d.tar.gz
Implement vgextend --restoremissing (BZ 537913), which makes it possible to
re-add a physical volume that has gone missing previously, due to a transient device failure, without re-initialising it. Signed-off-by: Petr Rockai <prockai@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/man/vgextend.8.in b/man/vgextend.8.in
index fffb17672..4ae2f089a 100644
--- a/man/vgextend.8.in
+++ b/man/vgextend.8.in
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ vgextend \- add physical volumes to a volume group
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B vgextend
[\-A|\-\-autobackup y|n] [\-d|\-\-debug] [\-h|\-?|\-\-help]
+[\-\-restoremissing]
[\-f|\-\-force]
[\-t|\-\-test]
[\-v|\-\-verbose]
@@ -12,7 +13,10 @@ VolumeGroupName PhysicalDevicePath [PhysicalDevicePath...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
vgextend allows you to add one or more initialized physical volumes ( see
.B pvcreate(8)
-) to an existing volume group to extend it in size.
+) to an existing volume group to extend it in size. Moreover, it allows you to
+re-add a physical volume that has gone missing previously, due to a transient
+device failure, without re-initialising it. Use vgextend \-\-restoremissing to
+that effect.
.sp
If \fIPhysicalDevicePath\fP was not previously configured for LVM with
\fBpvcreate (8)\fP, the device will be initialized with the same