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lvm

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

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• 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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