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lvm-categories — LVM command categories

This page provides categorized list of LVM manual pages.

LVM tools

Display and manipulate configuration information
Display recognised built-in block device types
Display and manipulate configuration information
List available metadata formats
Display full report
Display help for commands
Display last command's log report
Continue already initiated poll operation on a logical volume
List available segment types
Display the system ID, if any, currently set on this host
List tags defined on this host
Display software and driver version information

LVM autoactivation
LVM caching
LVM RAID
LVM reporting and related features
LVM system ID
LVM thin provisioning
Support for Virtual Data Optimizer in LVM

Configuration file for LVM2
Display and manipulate configuration information

Manage the devices file
Add devices for a VG to the devices file.

Change attributes of physical volume(s)
Initialize physical volume(s) for use by LVM
Move extents from one physical volume to another
Remove LVM label(s) from physical volume(s)
Resize physical volume(s)

Backup volume group configuration(s)
Restore volume group configuration
Change volume group attributes
Change volume group metadata format
Create a volume group
Unregister volume group(s) from the system
Add physical volumes to a volume group
Register exported volume group with system
Import a VG from cloned PVs
Merge volume groups
Create the special files for volume group devices in /dev
Remove physical volume(s) from a volume group
Remove volume group(s)
Rename a volume group
Move physical volumes into a new or existing volume group

Change the attributes of logical volume(s)
Change logical volume layout
Create a logical volume
Add space to a logical volume
Reduce the size of a logical volume
Remove logical volume(s) from the system
Rename a logical volume
Resize a logical volume

Display information about a logical volume
Display information about logical volumes
Display various attributes of physical volume(s)
Display information about physical volumes
Display volume group information
Display information about volume groups

List devices that may be used as physical volumes
List all logical volumes in all volume groups
List all physical volumes
Search for all volume groups

Check metadata on physical volumes
Check the consistency of volume group(s)

Device-mapper event daemon
LVM poll daemon

Utility to deactivate block devices
Utility to resize or check filesystem on a device
Utility to import VDO volumes into a new volume group
Create lvm2 information dumps for diagnostic purposes
Manage persistent reservations on a group of block devices

Low level logical volume management
Device-mapper statistics management

LVM system activity data collector
LVM system activity reporter

lvm(8), lvm-index(7)

LVM TOOLS 2.03.39(2) (2026-03-13) Red Hat, Inc.