LVM Love! (Linux+ Objective 1.3.2)

The Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is NOT a way to protect your data, but it IS a great way to add flexibility to how you manage your storage. Some distributions use LVM by default during install, but even if yours doesn't, adding LVM is surprisingly straightforward. In this video, we learn the concepts and actually create a fully functional LVM system. In under 20 minutes!

As with all of the Linux+ prep videos, whether you're planning to get certified, or you just want to learn to be a better system administrator, these videos are designed to teach you important skills.

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[mason]

just came back to this a year later to finally learn for the exam. i am playing around with this on a desktop version of ubuntu 23.04 and it doesnt have lvm installed. i had to do sudo apt install lvm2 to start using it. - great content as always Shawn

[DASHNMTB]

Thank you so much for these videos! Great teaching skills and you clarify things so well. Thanks again!

[MrMarcLaflamme]

Thanks for this Shawn. The trouble I always encounter with LVM is when extending the underlying PV (VMDK) and then resizing the whole group to reflect the bigger PV's. Also when you're modifying the LV that's in use for the root, when you need to reboot and when you can do it on the fly.

[egokiller]

thanks mr powers. these videos are amazing and im learning alot. mucho gracias

[kimaegaii]

At the end when you say you want the physical volumes to be on a RAID device, do you mean before you start the pvcreate process that you would make the initial devices use RAID, or after you complete the process and have a logical volume then get another device to do raid on that?

[mason]

been meaning to play with LVM for ages, this has give me the confidents to have a play with it thank you! - one thing how do you put a file system on it? so it can be used ?

[jgc]

In a virtual environment, does anyone make raid arrays or logical volumes?

[koiNGO-dwsg]

I am a bit blocked here, how do you have so many block devices on one drives? Like I tried using a USB, but that's only 1 additional block device.