Logical Volume Manager

How to Remove Physical Volume from a Volume Group

October 8, 2020December 8, 2023 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - 1 Comment

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 LVM Partition Size in Linux

September 22, 2020December 8, 2023 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - 1 Comment

Reducing/Shrinking a logical volume is a high risk of data corruption, so try to avoid this situation as much as possible. But, sometimes we may need to do it if …

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How to Extend Logical Volume (LVM) in Linux

September 17, 2020December 7, 2023 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - Leave a Comment

Extending the LVM partition is extremely easy, it takes very few steps and can be done online without unmounting a logical volume. The main purpose of LVM is flexible disk …

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How to Create Logical Volume (LVM) in Linux

September 16, 2020December 7, 2023 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - 5 Comments.

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

March 28, 2018February 28, 2020 - by Ramya Nuvvula - Leave a Comment

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 …