Creating The Lvm Logical Volumes - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

Chapter 9. LVM (Logical Volume Manager)
Figure 9.9. Creating an LVM Volume Group
2. Change the Volume Group Name if desired.
3. All logical volumes inside the volume group must be allocated in physical extent (PE) units. A
physical extent is an allocation unit for data.
4. Select which physical volumes to use for the volume group.

9.4.4. Creating the LVM Logical Volumes

Create logical volumes with mount points such as /, /home/, and swap space. Remember that
/boot cannot be a logical volume. To add a logical volume, click the Add button in the Logical
Volumes section. A dialog window as shown in
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Figure 9.10, "Creating a Logical Volume"
appears.