Logical Volume Manager

LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux Operating System: it manages disk drives and similar mass-storage devices, in particular large ones. The term 'volume' refers to a disk drive or partition thereof.

• Logical Volume Manager [EN] @ Wikipedia
• Logical Volume Manager [DE] @ Wikipedia

Documentation

• LVM [EN] @ Gentoo Wiki

Installation & Configuration

Files

• /
  • etc/
    • lvm/
      • lvm.conf

Components

11 pages found:

• lvcreate
• lvdisplay
• lvextend
• lvreduce
• lvremove
• pvcreate
• vgchange
• vgconvert
• vgcreate
• vgrename
• vgscan