lvm Command Examples

Manage physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) interactive shell. More information: https://manned.org/lvm.

• Start the Logical Volume Manager interactive shell:

sudo lvm

• 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

• Display help for a specific command:

lvm help {{command}}