How to Remove Physical Volume from a Volume Group in LVM
If a device is no longer needed by LVM, you can use the ‘vgreduce’ command to remove that physical volume from it’s volume group. The ‘vgreduce’ command shrinks the capacity …
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How to Reduce/Shrink LVM’s (Logical Volume Resize) in Linux
Reducing/Shrinking the logical volume is the highest risk of data corruption. So try to avoid this kind of situation if possible, but go ahead if you have no other options. …
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How to Extend/Increase LVM’s (Logical Volume Resize) in Linux
Expanding the logical volume is extremely easy, it takes very few steps and can be done online without unmounting a certain logical volume. The main purpose of LVM is flexible …
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How to Create LVM (Logical Volume) in Linux
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) plays an important role in the Linux operating system by improving the availability, disk I/O, performance and capability of disk management. LVM is a widely used …
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How to Create/Extend Swap Partition on Linux Using LVM
We use LVM for flexible volume management on Linux, so why not use LVM for swap space? This allows users to increase the swap partition whenever they want. Generally you …
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