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lvm

Manage physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) interactive shell. More information: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lvm.8.html.

• 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