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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.
  • Start the Logical Volume Manager interactive shell:
    sudo lvm
  • List the Logical Volume Manager commands:
    sudo lvm help
  • Initialize a drive or partition to be used as a physical volume:
    sudo lvm pvcreate {{/dev/sdXY}}
  • Display information about physical volumes:
    sudo lvm pvdisplay
  • Create a volume group called vg1 from the physical volume on /dev/sdXY:
    sudo lvm vgcreate {{vg1}} {{/dev/sdXY}}
  • Display information about volume groups:
    sudo lvm vgdisplay
  • Create a logical volume with size 10G from volume group vg1:
    sudo lvm lvcreate -L {{10G}} {{vg1}}
  • Display information about logical volumes:
    sudo lvm lvdisplay

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