How do you make logical volume active?

You can and activate or deactivate all of the logical volumes in a volume group with the -a option of the vgchange command. This is the equivalent of running the lvchange -a command on each individual logical volume in the volume group.

How do I see logical volumes in Linux?

There are three commands you can use to display properties of LVM logical volumes: lvs , lvdisplay , and lvscan . The lvs command provides logical volume information in a configurable form, displaying one line per logical volume. The lvs command provides a great deal of format control, and is useful for scripting.