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lvm — Manage physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) i

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Problem

How to use the lvm command: Manage physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) interactive shell. More information: <https://manned.org/lvm>.

Solution

lvm — Manage physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) interactive shell. More information: <https://manned.org/lvm>.

Start the Logical Volume Manager interactive shell:

sudo lvm

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|--size]}} {{10G}} {{vg1}}

Display information about logical volumes:

sudo lvm lvdisplay

Display help for a specific command:

lvm help {{command}}

Code Snippets

Start the Logical Volume Manager interactive shell

sudo lvm

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

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