Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

 

New we are going to see how to create the new partitions in Linux using LVM.

Below are the steps to configure the new hard disk on Linux:

Step 1) Take a physical disk (PD)

Step 2) Physical Partition (PP) the PD using fdisk for MBR partitioning or gdisk for GPT partitioning.




Step 3) Create physical volume (PV)



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Step 4) Create a volume group (VG)

Step 6) Create a logical volume (LV)

Step 7) Create a file system type.

Step 8) Create a mount point. This is a directory where the above formatted logical volume is supposed to point

Step 9) mount the logical volume to the mount point.

 Step 10) to make the file system persistent. Add the entry to fstab.