Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.1 - LVM ADMINISTRATION Manual page 106

Index
exclusive access, 38
extending, 32
growing, 32
linear, 26
local access, 38
lvs display arguments, 44
mirrored, 28
reducing, 35
removing, 31
renaming, 31
resizing, 30
shrinking, 35
snapshot, 35
striped, 28
lvchange command, 31
lvconvert command, 30
lvcreate command, 26
lvdisplay command, 32
lvextend command, 32
LVM
architecture overview, 2
clustered, 3
components, 2, 5
custom report format, 38
directory structure, 20
help, 16
history, 2
label, 5
logging, 14
logical volume administration, 26
physical volume administration, 16
physical volume, definition, 5
volume group, definition, 6
LVM1, 2
LVM2, 2
lvmdiskscan command, 17
lvreduce command, 30, 35
lvremove command, 31
lvrename command, 31
lvs command, 38, 44
display arguments, 44
lvscan command, 32
M
man page display, 16
metadata
backup, 14, 24
recovery, 66
mirrored logical volume
converting to linear, 30
creation, 28
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definition, 10
failure recovery, 62
reconfiguration, 30
O
online data relocation, 37
P
partition type, setting, 17
partitions
multiple, 6
path names, 15
persistent device numbers, 30
physical extent
preventing allocation, 19
physical volume
adding to a volume group, 21
administration, general, 16
creating, 17
definition, 5
display, 41
displaying, 18, 38
illustration, 5
initializing, 17
layout, 5
pvs display arguments, 41
recovery, 67
removing, 19
removing from volume group, 22
removing lost volume, 68
resizing, 19
pvdisplay command, 18
pvmove command, 37
pvremove command, 19
pvresize command, 19
pvs command, 38
display arguments, 41
pvscan command, 18
R
removing
disk from a logical volume, 56
logical volume, 31
physical volumes, 19
renaming
logical volume, 31
volume group, 25
report format, LVM devices, 38
resizing
logical volume, 30
physical volume, 19