lvm

linux

Manage physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) interactive shell.

Options (1)

-L, --sizeboolean

Create a logical volume with size 10G from volume group vg1

Example: sudo lvm lvcreate {{[-L|--size]}} {{10G}} {{vg1}}

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