Chapter 13. Volumes
13.1. Creating Volumes
This section shows how to create disk volumes inside a block based storage pool. In the example below, the
virsh vol-create-as command will create a storage volume with a specific size in GB within the guest_images_disk storage pool. As this command is repeated per volume needed, three volumes are created as shown in the example.
# virsh vol-create-as guest_images_disk volume1 8G
Vol volume1 created
# virsh vol-create-as guest_images_disk volume2 8G
Vol volume2 created
# virsh vol-create-as guest_images_disk volume3 8G
Vol volume3 created
# virsh vol-list guest_images_disk
Name Path
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volume1 /dev/sdb1
volume2 /dev/sdb2
volume3 /dev/sdb3
# parted -s /dev/sdb print
Model: ATA ST3500418AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
2 17.4kB 8590MB 8590MB primary
3 8590MB 17.2GB 8590MB primary
1 21.5GB 30.1GB 8590MB primary
