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Logical Volume Manager

Partition type: 8e00 (Linux LVM)

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ready drive for LVM pvcreate
create a new VG vgcreate NAME PVNAME
show logical volumes lvdisplay
enlarge LOGICALVOL by 10GB lvresize –size +10G LOGICALVOL
create logical volume with 10GB in vg0 lvcreate -L 10G vg0 -n NAME
PV Physical Volume (e.g. a disk; can contain a LV)
LV Logical Volume
LVM Logical Volume Manager
LE Logical Extent
PE Physical Extent
VG Volume Group (grouping of one or more PVs)
VGDA Volume Group Descriptor Area
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --verbose --level=1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/sdb1
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