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>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/lvm.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/lvm
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/lvm lvm powered by Commando

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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