Managing LVM on Red Hat based systems

categories:

• RHCE

Steps :

1. Creation of Physical Volumes (container of volume groups)
2. Creation of Volume Groups (container of logical volumes)
3. Creation of Logical Volumes (“partitions”)
4. Formatting the Logical Volumes
5. (optional) Resizing Logical Volumes

1. Creation of Physical Volumes (PV)

pvcreate /dev/hda4 pvdisplay

It is good practice to always use “(pv|vg|lv)display” after creating a volume.

/dev/hda4 is an empty partition.. see fdisk manpages for help.

2. Creation of Volume Groups (VG)

vgcreate VolGroup00 /dev/hda4 vgdisplay

We are naming the volume group “VolGroup00”, call it whatever you like. The VG will take the whole partition space here. You can specify the size by using the “-s” option.

3. Creation of Logical Volumes (LV)

lvcreate --size 500M --name LogVol00 VolGroup00 lvdisplay

A 500M Logical Volume has been creating inside “VolGroup00”.

4. Formatting the newly created Logical Volume

mkfs.ext3 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /somedir

5. (optional) Resizing a Logical Volume

umount /somedir lvextend -v -L +100M /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 e2fsck -f /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /somedir

We made the Logical Volume 100M bigger. Then, you need to resize the ext3 partition inside the Logical Volume.