# lvcreate # Creates a logical volume in an existing volume group. # A volume group is a collection of logical and physical volumes. # Create a logical volume of 10 gigabytes in the volume group vg1: lvcreate -L 10G vg1 # Create a 1500 megabyte linear logical volume named mylv # in the volume group vg1: lvcreate -L 1500 -n mylv vg1 # Create a logical volume called mylv that uses 60% of the total space # in the volume group vg1: lvcreate -l 60%VG -n mylv vg1 # Create a logical volume called mylv that uses all of the unallocated space # in the volume group vg1: lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n mylv vg1 # Create a snapshot (lvsnap) from a logical volume (/dev/vgA/lv1); # snapshot size = 10G (total size of the changes) lvcreate -L 10G -s -n lvsnap /dev/vgA/lv1 # Clone LVM volume: test => testCopy lvconvert --type mirror --alloc anywhere -m1 /dev/mylv/test lvs -a -o +devices | grep -E "LV|test" # After Cpy%Sync is 100% finished: lvconvert --splitmirrors 1 --name testCopy /dev/rootvg/test