Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- LVM Administrator's Guide
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The LVM Logical Volume Manager
- Chapter 2. LVM Components
- Chapter 3. LVM Administration Overview
- Chapter 4. LVM Administration with CLI Commands
- 1. Using CLI Commands
- 2. Physical Volume Administration
- 3. Volume Group Administration
- 3.1. Creating Volume Groups
- 3.2. Adding Physical Volumes to a Volume Group
- 3.3. Displaying Volume Groups
- 3.4. Scanning Disks for Volume Groups to Build the Cache File
- 3.5. Removing Physical Volumes from a Volume Group
- 3.6. Changing the Parameters of a Volume Group
- 3.7. Activating and Deactivating Volume Groups
- 3.8. Removing Volume Groups
- 3.9. Splitting a Volume Group
- 3.10. Combining Volume Groups
- 3.11. Backing Up Volume Group Metadata
- 3.12. Renaming a Volume Group
- 3.13. Moving a Volume Group to Another System
- 3.14. Recreating a Volume Group Directory
- 4. Logical Volume Administration
- 4.1. Creating Logical Volumes
- 4.2. Persistent Device Numbers
- 4.3. Resizing Logical Volumes
- 4.4. Changing the Parameters of a Logical Volume Group
- 4.5. Renaming Logical Volumes
- 4.6. Removing Logical Volumes
- 4.7. Displaying Logical Volumes
- 4.8. Growing Logical Volumes
- 4.9. Extending a Striped Volume
- 4.10. Shrinking Logical Volumes
- 5. Creating Snapshot Volumes
- 6. Controlling LVM Device Scans with Filters
- 7. Online Data Relocation
- 8. Activating Logical Volumes on Individual Nodes in a Cluster
- 9. Customized Reporting for LVM
- Chapter 5. LVM Configuration Examples
- Chapter 6. LVM Troubleshooting
- Chapter 7. LVM Administration with the LVM GUI
- Appendix A. The Device Mapper
- Appendix B. The LVM Configuration Files
- Appendix C. LVM Object Tags
- Appendix D. LVM Volume Group Metadata
- Index
[root@tng3-1 ~]# vgcreate striped_vol_group /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
Volume group "striped_vol_group" successfully created
You can use the vgs command to display the attributes of the new volume group.
[root@tng3-1 ~]# vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
striped_vol_group 3 0 0 wz--n- 51.45G 51.45G
2.3. Creating the Logical Volume
The following command creates the striped logical volume striped_logical_volume from the
volume group striped_vol_group. This example creates a logical volume that is 2 gigabytes in
size, with three stripes and a stripe size of 4 kilobytes.
[root@tng3-1 ~]# lvcreate -i3 -I4 -L2G -nstriped_logical_volume striped_vol_group
Rounding size (512 extents) up to stripe boundary size (513 extents)
Logical volume "striped_logical_volume" created
2.4. Creating the File System
The following command creates a GFS file system on the logical volume.
[root@tng3-1 ~]# gfs_mkfs -plock_nolock -j 1 /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume
This will destroy any data on /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume.
Are you sure you want to proceed? [y/n] y
Device: /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume
Blocksize: 4096
Filesystem Size: 492484
Journals: 1
Resource Groups: 8
Locking Protocol: lock_nolock
Lock Table:
Syncing...
All Done
The following commands mount the logical volume and report the file system disk space usage.
[root@tng3-1 ~]# mount /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume /mnt
[root@tng3-1 ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
13902624 1656776 11528232 13% /
/dev/hda1 101086 10787 85080 12% /boot
tmpfs 127880 0 127880 0% /dev/shm
/dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume
1969936 20 1969916 1% /mnt
3. Splitting a Volume Group
In this example, an existing volume group consists of three physical volumes. If there is enough
2.3. Creating the Logical Volume
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