lvcreate

Create a logical volume in an existing volume group. A volume group is a collection of logical and physical volumes. See also: lvm. More information: <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lvcreate.8.html>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/lvcreate.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install lvm2
Ubuntu
apt-get install lvm2
Alpine
apk add lvm2
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S lvm2
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install lvm2
CentOS
yum install lvm2
Fedora
dnf install lvm2
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lvm2
Raspbian
apt-get install lvm2
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/lvcreate
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/lvcreate lvcreate powered by Commando

Create a logical volume in an existing volume group. A volume group is a collection of logical and physical volumes. See also: lvm. More information: <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lvcreate.8.html>.

  • Create a logical volume of 10 gigabytes in the volume group vg1:
    lvcreate -L 10G vg1
  • Create a 1500 megabyte linear logical volume named mylv in the volume group vg1:
    lvcreate -L 1500 -n mylv vg1
  • Create a logical volume called mylv that uses 60% of the total space in volume group vg1:
    lvcreate -l 60%VG -n mylv vg1
  • Create a logical volume called mylv that uses all the unallocated space in the volume group vg1:
    lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n mylv vg1

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