Comments on: Logical Volume Manager Cheatsheet

By: Linux Logical Volume Management (LVM) basic commands

Linux Logical Volume Management (LVM) basic commands — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:12:36 +0000

[...] you want to find out some more commands here you find a very nice LVM tutorial I've consulted [...]

By: Heston Holtmann

Heston Holtmann — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:57:34 +0000

Nice summary… but how would you move a Logical Volume from one VG to a completely different VG?

I thought it would be possible with the `pvmove` command but it appears to only work for moving Physical Extents of a LV from one VG device to another.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:16:28 +0000

Great tutorial,

I found it very (very!!!) useful!

Thanks

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Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:03:45 +0000

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By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:14:17 +0000

Martin,

one usefull addition could be to mention certain switches when creating LV:
lvcreate -l 100%VG -n mynew_lv mynew_vg

The -l switch has some meta options for adding 100% of the Volume Group (VG), or 100%FREE to allocate all of the free space.

Otherwise you have to figure out how many extends a volume has or how much left, etc. These meta option are much easier to remember (at least for me)

thanks again!

By: Martin Ankerl

Martin Ankerl — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:59:18 +0000

Hi christian, glad you like it Using only command line tools for LVM is really quite easy, the only obstactle is reading through the manual (which is very good).

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:26:26 +0000

Thanks Martin, that was just what I was looking for I had been too lazy about it to bother to figure it out :shame: But now I can safely say goodbye to runlevel 5
:byebye: