Chapter 5. LVM Configuration Examples
This chapter provides some basic LVM configuration examples.
5.1. Creating an LVM Logical Volume on Three Disks Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
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This example procedure creates an LVM logical volume called
new_logical_volume
that consists of the disks at /dev/sda1
, /dev/sdb1
, and /dev/sdc1
.
- To use disks in a volume group, label them as LVM physical volumes with the
pvcreate
command.Warning
This command destroys any data on/dev/sda1
,/dev/sdb1
, and/dev/sdc1
.pvcreate /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
# pvcreate /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 Physical volume "/dev/sda1" successfully created Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created Physical volume "/dev/sdc1" successfully created
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Create the a volume group that consists of the LVM physical volumes you have created. The following command creates the volume group
new_vol_group
.vgcreate new_vol_group /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
# vgcreate new_vol_group /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 Volume group "new_vol_group" successfully created
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You can use thevgs
command to display the attributes of the new volume group.vgs
# vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree new_vol_group 3 0 0 wz--n- 51.45G 51.45G
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Create the logical volume from the volume group you have created. The following command creates the logical volume
new_logical_volume
from the volume groupnew_vol_group
. This example creates a logical volume that uses 2 gigabytes of the volume group.lvcreate -L 2G -n new_logical_volume new_vol_group
# lvcreate -L 2G -n new_logical_volume new_vol_group Logical volume "new_logical_volume" created
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Create a file system on the logical volume. The following command creates a GFS2 file system on the logical volume.
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow The following commands mount the logical volume and report the file system disk space usage.Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow