How do I use the LVM tools in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 rescue environment?

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 uses LVM2. The LVM commands such as vgscan and vgcreate are actually just links to the program called lvm.static. A long listing on the command would show this:

# ls -l /sbin/vgscan
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 Oct  8 16:06 /sbin/vgscan -> lvm.static

In the rescue environment however, these links ...

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