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NAME
lvm-categories — LVM command categories
DESCRIPTION
This page provides categorized list of LVM manual pages.
CATEGORIES
Core Commands
- lvm
- LVM tools
Builtin Commands
- config
- Display and manipulate configuration information
- devtypes
- Display recognised built-in block device types
- dumpconfig
- Display and manipulate configuration information
- formats
- List available metadata formats
- fullreport
- Display full report
- help
- Display help for commands
- lastlog
- Display last command's log report
- lvpoll
- Continue already initiated poll operation on a logical volume
- segtypes
- List available segment types
- systemid
- Display the system ID, if any, currently set on this host
- List tags defined on this host
- version
- Display software and driver version information
Concepts
- lvmautoactivation
- LVM autoactivation
- lvmcache
- LVM caching
- lvmraid
- LVM RAID
- lvmreport
- LVM reporting and related features
- lvmsystemid
- LVM system ID
- lvmthin
- LVM thin provisioning
- lvmvdo
- Support for Virtual Data Optimizer in LVM
Configuration
Devices File Management
- lvmdevices
- Manage the devices file
- vgimportdevices
- Add devices for a VG to the devices file.
Physical Volume Commands
Volume Group Commands
- vgcfgbackup
- Backup volume group configuration(s)
- vgcfgrestore
- Restore volume group configuration
- vgchange
- Change volume group attributes
- vgconvert
- Change volume group metadata format
- vgcreate
- Create a volume group
- vgexport
- Unregister volume group(s) from the system
- vgextend
- Add physical volumes to a volume group
- vgimport
- Register exported volume group with system
- vgimportclone
- Import a VG from cloned PVs
- vgmerge
- Merge volume groups
- vgmknodes
- Create the special files for volume group devices in /dev
- vgreduce
- Remove physical volume(s) from a volume group
- vgremove
- Remove volume group(s)
- vgrename
- Rename a volume group
- vgsplit
- Move physical volumes into a new or existing volume group
Logical Volume Commands
- lvchange
- Change the attributes of logical volume(s)
- lvconvert
- Change logical volume layout
- lvcreate
- Create a logical volume
- lvextend
- Add space to a logical volume
- lvreduce
- Reduce the size of a logical volume
- lvremove
- Remove logical volume(s) from the system
- lvrename
- Rename a logical volume
- lvresize
- Resize a logical volume
Reporting Commands
Scanning Commands
- lvmdiskscan
- List devices that may be used as physical volumes
- lvscan
- List all logical volumes in all volume groups
- pvscan
- List all physical volumes
- vgscan
- Search for all volume groups
Check Commands
Daemons
Utility Commands
- blkdeactivate
- Utility to deactivate block devices
- fsadm
- Utility to resize or check filesystem on a device
- lvm_import_vdo
- Utility to import VDO volumes into a new volume group
- lvmdump
- Create lvm2 information dumps for diagnostic purposes
- lvmpersist
- Manage persistent reservations on a group of block devices
Device-Mapper Commands
Obsolete
SEE ALSO
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