Chapter 4. Logical Volume Manager

Introduction

Because this is a “how to” book, this chapter focuses on some commonly performed Logical Volume Manager (LVM):

  • Logical Volume Manager (LVM) - You will probably use LVM to manage the data on your system. This section provides background information on LVM.

  • Example of adding external disk capacity on an Integrity server. This thorough section shows the commands used to recognize the external storage, the commands used to configure the external storage and mount the file systems, and the scripts I use to accomplish some of the configuration automatically.

  • A summary of some commonly used LVM procedures.

  • Some additional file system commands.

Logical Volume Manager Background

Logical Volume Manager is a disk-management ...

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