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===Blivet=== | ===Blivet=== | ||
A great GUI tool for managing and creating LVs. But sadly, doesn't exist or work past Rocky 8. When creating a Volume Group BLIVET creates the Partition, Physical Volume, and Volume Group in one swift move. | A great GUI tool for managing and creating LVs. But sadly, doesn't exist or work past Rocky 8. When creating a Volume Group BLIVET creates the Partition, Physical Volume, and Volume Group in one swift move. | ||
After creating a Volume Group, move on down to the LVM section (left column under physical drives) and create the Logical Volume and format it (create Labels too). | |||
===Command Alternative=== | ===Command Alternative=== | ||
< | ====Show Existing LVM Setup==== | ||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | |||
# List Physical Volumes (PVs) | # List Physical Volumes (PVs) | ||
pvs | pvs | ||
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# List Logical Volumes (LVs) | # List Logical Volumes (LVs) | ||
lvs | lvs | ||
</ | </syntaxhighlight> | ||
======Create a New LVM Structure====== | |||
== | ======1. Create a Physical Volume (PV) on <code>/dev/sdb</code>====== | ||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | |||
====1. Create a Physical Volume (PV) on <code>/dev/sdb</code>==== | |||
< | |||
pvcreate /dev/sdb | pvcreate /dev/sdb | ||
</ | </syntaxhighlight> | ||
===2. Create a Volume Group (VG) named <code>my_vg</code>=== | ======2. Create a Volume Group (VG) named <code>my_vg</code>====== | ||
< | <syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | ||
vgcreate my_vg /dev/sdb | vgcreate my_vg /dev/sdb | ||
</ | </syntaxhighlight> | ||
===3. Create a Logical Volume (LV) named <code>my_lv</code> (10GB size)=== | ======3. Create a Logical Volume (LV) named <code>my_lv</code> (10GB size)====== | ||
< | <syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | ||
lvcreate -L 10G -n my_lv my_vg | lvcreate -L 10G -n my_lv my_vg | ||
</ | </syntaxhighlight> | ||
==Show the Created LVM Components== | =====Show the Created LVM Components===== | ||
< | <syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | ||
pvs # Show Physical Volumes | pvs # Show Physical Volumes | ||
vgs # Show Volume Groups | vgs # Show Volume Groups | ||
lvs # Show Logical Volumes | lvs # Show Logical Volumes | ||
</ | </syntaxhighlight> | ||