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

General Information

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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
w

Create physical volume

pvcreate /dev/sdb1

Assign physical volume to new volume group

vgcreate vglocal /dev/sdb1

Assign physical volume to existing volume group

vgextend vglocal /dev/sdb1

Create logical volume

lvcreate --name lvhome --size 30G vglocal

Create filesystem and mount logical volume

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

Display physical volumes, volume groups, or logical volumes

pvdisplay
vgdisplay
lvdisplay

Delete logical volume

lvremove /dev/mapper/vglocal-lvhome

Delete volume group

vgremove vglocal

Remove physical volume

pvremove /dev/sdb1