Linux Logical Volume Management Operations

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External

Internal

Overview

Logical volume management commands can be issued from the lvm console, or as standalone commands. For example:

lvm> lvs

produces identical results to

lvs

Inventory of Devices that May Be Used as Physical Volumes

lvmdiskscan

Example:

[root@rhel-test ~]# lvmdiskscan
  /dev/rhel_rhel-test/swap [     820.00 MiB] 
  /dev/sda1                [     500.00 MiB] 
  /dev/rhel_rhel-test/root [       6.67 GiB] 
  /dev/sda2                [       7.51 GiB] LVM physical volume
  /dev/sdb                 [       2.00 GiB] 
  3 disks
  1 partition
  0 LVM physical volume whole disks
  1 LVM physical volume

The output specifies which device is already a LVM Physical Volume

To see only the existing Physical Volumes (devices that have Volume Groups on them)

lvmdiskscan -l

LVM Configuration

Physical Volume Operations

Physical Volume Concepts

Information about Physical Volumes

  • pvs - provides information about physical volumes available on the system.
  • pvscan - scans all disks for physical volumes.
  • pvdisplay - provides details about a specific physical volume.

Physical Volume Management Operations

  • pvcreate - initializes a physical volume(s) for use by LVM.
  • pvchange - changes attributes of a physical volume.
  • pvresize - resizes a disk or partition in use.
  • pvmove - moves physical extents from one physical volume to another.
  • pvck - checks the consistency of the physical volume metadata.
  • pvremove - removes a physical volume.

Volume Group Operations

Volume Group Concepts

Information about Volume Groups

  • vgs - reports information about volume groups.
  • vgdisplay - display attributes of volume groups.

Volume Group Management Operations

  • vgcreate - create a volume group.
  • vgextend - add Physical Volumes to a Volume Group.
  • vgreduce - removes one or more unused physical volumes from a volume group.
  • vgremove - deletes a volume group.

Logical Volume Operations

Logical Volume

Information about Logical Volumes

  • lvs - provides information about logical volumes available on the system.
  • lvdisplay - displays attributes of a logical volume.
  • lvscan - scans all known volume groups or all supported LVM block devices in the system for defined Logical Volumes.

Logical Volume Management Operations

Procedures

Troubleshooting

  • View LVM logs:
journalctl -u dm-event.service
  • Block devices:
lsblk