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 10G vg1
- Display information about logical volumes:
sudo lvm lvdisplay
- Display help for a specific command:
lvm help command