Chapter 11. Common Tasks

Table of Contents

1. Initializing disks or disk partitions
2. Creating a volume group
3. Activating a volume group
4. Removing a volume group
5. Adding physical volumes to a volume group
6. Removing physical volumes from a volume group
7. Creating a logical volume
8. Removing a logical volume
9. Extending a logical volume
10. Reducing a logical volume
11. Migrating data off of a physical volume

The following sections outline some common administrative tasks for an LVM system. This is no substitute for reading the man pages.