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LVM

Logical Volume Management


What is LVM?
● LVM – Logical Volume Management
● LVM provides a method of allocating space available on mass storage devices.
● LVM is far more flexible than conventional partitioning schemes:
⚫ Provides the ability to add disk space to a logical volume and its filesystem
while that filesystem is mounted and active
⚫ Allows for the collection of multiple physical hard drives and partitions into a
single volume group which can then be divided into logical volumes.
⚫ Allows reducing the amount of disk space allocated to a logical volume (the
volume must be unmounted, the filesystem itself must allow resizing for this
feature to work).
LVM Components
● LVM consist of the following components:
⚫ Physical volumes (PV)
⚫ The underlying physical storage unit of an LVM logical volume is a block device such as
a partition or whole disk.
⚫ The device must be initialized as a physical volume.
⚫ Volume groups (VG) : a pool of disk space out of which logical volumes can be allocated.
⚫ Logical volumes (LV): a volume group is divided up into logical volumes.
Setting Up Logical Volumes
● Have the physical disk.
● Create the required partitions on the physical disk (using fdisk or other tools).
● Create a physical volume for each partition (mark each partition as PV)
● Create a volume group
● Add physical volume to volume group
● Create logical volumes
● Create new file system on logical volume – format logical volume (logical
volume is seen as a device).
● Mount the file system.
LVM Example. Step 1
● Hard Drive and Partitions
● Let’s say we have the sdb hard drive with four created partitions. Each partition
is 5GB in size:
LVM Example. Step 2
● Initialize partitions as physical volumes: pvcreate command

● View the current physical volumes: pvdisplay command


LVM Example. Step 3
● Create a volume group named vgpool. Typically, we need only one volume group on the
system: vgcreate command

● Add more physical volumes to the vgpool volume group: vgextend command

● View the created and


extended volume group:
vgdisplay command
LVM Example. Step 4
● Create a logical volume named lvstuff: lvcreate command
⚫ Logical volumes correspond to partitions: they hold a filesystem. Unlike partitions, logical
volumes get names rather than numbers, they can span across multiple disks, and do not
have to be physically contiguous.

● View the created logical volume lvstuff: lvdisplay command


LVM Example. Step 5
● Format the logical volume lvstuff
LVM Example. Step 6
● Mount the logical volume lvstuff and use the df command to see if the logical volume was
mounted

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