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Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a software which provides the abstraction layer over the physical disk.
Which hides the details regarding where does data stored on the disk or from where the data comes from
actual physical disk whenever it is requested.Before learning how to create lvm lets learn terms in LVM so
that it will become easy to grasp the commands about LVM administration.

1. The Physical Disk/Media: It is the raw hard disk where the actual data is going to store. Ex: :
/dev/hda, /dev/hda6, /dev/sda.
2. Physical Volume (PV ): To bring the physical disk under LVM control we need to create the LVM data
structure on the disk. once its created the its called as a PV.
3. Physical Extents (PE):PV is divided into PE’s. AWS (26)
4. Volume Group( VG): is made of number of PE coming from one or more PV’s..
devops (15)
5. Logical Volume (LV ): A Logical Volume is the end result of our work, and it’s there that we store our
information. Extra (1)
�. FileSystem:is the actual formatted LM which is formatted �rst and the mounted on the directory for
Helm (2)
actual storage of the information.
HPUNIX (4)
To understand the above terms more clearly refer to below diagrams:
Kali Linux (2)

Physical Volume, contains Physical Extents: Kubernetes (7)

Linux (100)
+-----[ Physical Volume ]------+
| PE | PE | PE | PE | PE | PE | LVM (4)
+------------------------------+
Python (2)

Volume Group, containing 2 Physical Volumes (PVs) with 6 Physical Extents: Ubuntu (3)

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+------[ Volume Group ]-----------------+ Uncategorized (4)

| +--[PV]--------+ +--[PV]---------+ |
| | PE | PE | PE | | PE | PE | PE | |
| +--------------+ +---------------+ |
+---------------------------------------+

* indicates required
We now further expand this: Name

+------[ Volume Group ]-----------------+

| +--[PV]--------+ +--[PV]---------+ |
Email Address *
| | PE | PE | PE | | PE | PE | PE | |
| +--+---+---+---+ +-+----+----+---+ |
| | | | +-----/ | | |
| | | | | | | |
| +-+---+---+-+ +----+----+--+ |
| | Logical | | Logical | |
| | Volume | | Volume | |
| | | | | |
| | /home | | /var | |
| +-----------+ +------------+ |
+---------------------------------------+

This shows us two �lesystems, spanning two disks.

The /home �lesystem contains 4 Physical Extents, the /var �lesystem contains 2 Physical Extents.

Practicals: Now lets learn how to create LVM volume so that it can be mounted on Linux server.

1. Checking the attached disk:

[root@mann ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00076e7f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 * 1 39 307200 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 39 2093 16501760 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2093 2611 4161536 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 5368 MB, 5368709120 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 652 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdc: 2147 MB, 2147483648 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

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Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdd: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdd doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 440 MB, 440401920 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 53 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

2. Create LVM data structure on the disk /dev/sdc

[root@mann ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdc

Physical volume "/dev/sdc" successfully created

2a. R ec h e c k i t u si ng pvdis ply c o mm and.

[root@mann ~]# pvdisplay

--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb
VG Name vg01
PV Size 5.00 GiB / not usable 4.00 MiB
Allocatable yes
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 1279
Free PE 1174
Allocated PE 105
PV UUID 3p2Wdk-SkZD-76ko-TQiP-IrwX-Whk5-WIzR7Q

"/dev/sdc" is a new physical volume of "2.00 GiB"

--- NEW Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdc
VG Name
PV Size 2.00 GiB
Allocatable NO
PE Size 0
Total PE 0
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 0
PV UUID qoiBZ4-mRwV-G96p-U07x-zxwf-4iqY-wLPKUS

3 . C re a t e n e w VG

[root@mann ~]# vgcreate myvg /dev/sdc

Volume group "myvg" successfully created

4.Then Create new LV of size 200mb in the newly created VG.

[root@mann ~]# lvcreate -L 200 myvg

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Logical volume "lvol0" created

5. Check the LV

[root@mann ~]# lvdisplay

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/myvg/lvol0
VG Name myvg
LV UUID Jul8hw-3hWt-HYzM-cjiA-jysn-1YrU-4SPqgV
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 200.00 MiB
Current LE 50
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:0

--- Logical volume ---

LV Name /dev/vg01/lvol0
VG Name vg01
LV UUID ziIOqS-WGe6-uv6X-F4GU-x7U9-MSfA-9ugZ42
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 420.00 MiB
Current LE 105
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:1

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