Create And Remove Physical Volumes Assign Physical Volumes To Volume Groups And Create And Delete Logical Volumes

General Information

Working with logical volumes.

Parition that is prepared for type LVM (8e00)

gdisk /dev/sdb
n
Partition number: 1
First sector: default
Last sector: +30G
Hex code type: 8e00
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Create physical volume

pvcreate /dev/sdb1

Summary of physical volumes

pvs

Full display of physical volumes

pvdisplay

Assign physical volume to new volume group

vgcreate vglocal /dev/sdb1

Assign physical volume to existing volume group

vgextend vglocal /dev/sdb1

Summary of volume groups

vgs

Full display of volume groups

vgdisplay

Create logical volume

lvcreate --name lvhome --size 30G vglocal

Summary of logical volumes

lvs

Full display of logical volumes

vgdisplay

Create filesystem and mount logical volume

mkfs -t xfs /dev/mapper/vglocal-lvhome
mount /dev/mapper/vglocal-lvhome /home

Delete logical volume

lvremove /dev/mapper/vglocal-lvhome

Remove a physical volume (/dev/sdb1) from a volume group (vglocal)

vgreduce vglocal /dev/sdb1

Delete volume group

vgremove vglocal

Remove physical volume

pvremove /dev/sdb1