LXC.STORAGE.VOLUME.CREATE(1)

💅 NAME 💅

ok so bestie, gather round — lxc-storage-volume-create, aka lxc storage volume create, is the one that creates new custom storage volumes ✨ like literally that's the whole job, no cap 🫶

the manual name is LXD - Command line client(1) btw, in case you were wondering what doc fam we're in 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lxc storage volume create [:]  [key=value...] [flags]

that's the whole summoning circle 🔮 remote-pool name, then the volume, then as many key=value pairs as your little heart desires, then flags 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Description: (yes the original literally labels itself, iconic)

Create new custom storage volumes 💖

that's it. that's the vibe check. you point it at a pool, you give it a name, it makes a volume. main character energy fr fr 🔥

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --target="" — the cluster member name 🎯 (default is empty, i.e. don't target anyone specifically)
• --type="filesystem" — the content type of your new volume, and your two choices are block or filesystem 🧚 default is filesystem, so if you don't say anything you get the cozy one 💜

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

these are the ones you get for free from the parent command, like hand-me-downs but actually useful 🫶

• --debug[=false] — show all the debug messages 📢 (default false)
• --force-local[=false] — force using the local unix socket 🔌 (default false)
• -h, --help[=false] — print help, the classic 😌 (default false)
• --project="" — override the source project 🗂️ (default empty)
• -q, --quiet[=false] — don't show progress information 🤫 (default false)
• --sub-commands[=false] — use with help or --help to view sub-commands 🪄 (default false)
• -v, --verbose[=false] — show all the information messages 🗣️ (default false)
• --version[=false] — print version number 🏷️ (default false)

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

here's the moment you've been waiting for, the little demo 👇

lxc storage volume create p1 v1

boom. volume v1 in pool p1. slay 💅

lxc storage volume create p1 v1 < config.yaml
     Create storage volume v1 for pool p1 with configuration from config.yaml.

ok so this one is the glow-up version: you pipe config.yaml straight into stdin with < and it creates storage volume v1 for pool p1 with configuration from config.yaml 🍓 like you're feeding it a little snack and it grows a whole configured volume, obsessed 😭

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

• lxc-storage-volume(1) — go read the parent page, iykyk 👀

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

22-Aug-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra 🤖 (yes bestie, a robot wrote the original, we're all just vibing on top of it 🙈)

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and that's the page!! this masterpiece was Auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Aug 2026, and lives under the LXD - Command line client(1) banner — so when you see that footer, that's just the cobra machine signing its work 🐍✨ mwah, go create some volumes, you got this fr fr 💖🌷🦋