lvm
Manage physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) interactive shell. More information: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lvm.8.html.
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Start the Logical Volume Manager interactive shell:
sudo lvm
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List the Logical Volume Manager commands:
sudo lvm help
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Initialize a drive or partition to be used as a physical volume:
sudo lvm pvcreate {{/dev/sdXY}}
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Display information about physical volumes:
sudo lvm pvdisplay
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Create a volume group called vg1 from the physical volume on
/dev/sdXY
:
sudo lvm vgcreate {{vg1}} {{/dev/sdXY}}
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Display information about volume groups:
sudo lvm vgdisplay
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Create a logical volume with size 10G from volume group vg1:
sudo lvm lvcreate -L {{10G}} {{vg1}}
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Display information about logical volumes:
sudo lvm lvdisplay
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