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Manually Activate Volume Group

Purpose

Sometimes in some very specific situations, you will find that an LVM / VG just won't come online in ProxmoxVE. If this happens, you can run the following commands (and replace the placeholder location) to manually bring the storage online.

lvchange -an local-vm-storage/local-vm-storage
lvchange -an local-vm-storage/local-vm-storage_tmeta
lvchange -an local-vm-storage/local-vm-storage_tdata
vgchange -ay local-vm-storage

Be Patient

It can take some time for everything to come online.

Success

If you see something like this: 6 logical volume(s) in volume group "local-vm-storage" now active, then you successfully brought the volume online.