LVM-CATEGORIES(7)

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💖 LVM-CATEGORIES(7) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the section-7 page lvm-categories — yes, the manual name is literally baked in there, and no, I'm not gonna make you scroll a header line for it. It's lvm-categories(7), Miscellaneous Information Manual, and it's basically the ✨aesthetic✨ filing cabinet for every LVM man page that exists. Think of it as your group chat's pinned message but for documentation. 🎀

📛 NAME 📛

lvm-categories — LVM command categories

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This page gives you a categorized list of LVM manual pages, bestie. Not alphabetical, not vibes-based — categorized. So when you're like "which one was the report thingy 😭" you come here and boom, there it is. It's giving organized. It's giving main character energy. 🦋

🗂️ CATEGORIES 🗂️

👑 Core Commands

  • lvm — LVM tools. that's it. that's the whole description. iconic.

💅 Builtin Commands

  • config — Display and manipulate configuration information
  • devtypes — Display recognised built-in block device types
  • dumpconfig — Display and manipulate configuration information
  • formats — List available metadata formats
  • fullreport — Display full report
  • help — Display help for commands
  • lastlog — Display last command's log report
  • lvpoll — Continue already initiated poll operation on a logical volume
  • segtypes — List available segment types
  • systemid — Display the system ID, if any, currently set on this host
  • tags — List tags defined on this host
  • version — Display software and driver version information

🧠 Concepts

  • lvmautoactivation — LVM autoactivation
  • lvmcache — LVM caching
  • lvmraid — LVM RAID
  • lvmreport — LVM reporting and related features
  • lvmsystemid — LVM system ID
  • lvmthin — LVM thin provisioning
  • lvmvdo — Support for Virtual Data Optimizer in LVM

⚙️ Configuration

  • lvm.conf — Configuration file for LVM2
  • lvmconfig — Display and manipulate configuration information

🧾 Devices File Management

  • lvmdevices — Manage the devices file
  • vgimportdevices — Add devices for a VG to the devices file

🧱 Physical Volume Commands

  • pvchange — Change attributes of physical volume(s)
  • pvcreate — Initialize physical volume(s) for use by LVM
  • pvmove — Move extents from one physical volume to another
  • pvremove — Remove LVM label(s) from physical volume(s)
  • pvresize — Resize physical volume(s)

🫶 Volume Group Commands

  • vgcfgbackup — Backup volume group configuration(s)
  • vgcfgrestore — Restore volume group configuration
  • vgchange — Change volume group attributes
  • vgconvert — Removed: vgconvert has been removed along with the lvm1 format
  • vgcreate — Create a volume group
  • vgexport — Unregister volume group(s) from the system
  • vgextend — Add physical volumes to a volume group
  • vgimport — Register exported volume group with system
  • vgimportclone — Import a VG from cloned PVs
  • vgmerge — Merge volume groups
  • vgmknodes — Create the special files for volume group devices in /dev
  • vgreduce — Remove physical volume(s) from a volume group
  • vgremove — Remove volume group(s)
  • vgrename — Rename a volume group
  • vgsplit — Move physical volumes into a new or existing volume group
💀 lowkey important: vgconvert is gone. Removed. It left the chat along with the lvm1 format. don't come for me, that's just what the page says.

💜 Logical Volume Commands

  • lvchange — Change the attributes of logical volume(s)
  • lvconvert — Change logical volume layout
  • lvcreate — Create a logical volume
  • lvextend — Add space to a logical volume
  • lvreduce — Reduce the size of a logical volume
  • lvremove — Remove logical volume(s) from the system
  • lvrename — Rename a logical volume
  • lvresize — Resize a logical volume

📊 Reporting Commands

  • lvdisplay — Display information about a logical volume
  • lvs — Display information about logical volumes
  • pvdisplay — Display various attributes of physical volume(s)
  • pvs — Display information about physical volumes
  • vgdisplay — Display volume group information
  • vgs — Display information about volume groups

🔍 Scanning Commands

  • lvmdiskscan — List devices that may be used as physical volumes
  • lvscan — List all logical volumes in all volume groups
  • pvscan — List all physical volumes
  • vgscan — Search for all volume groups

✅ Check Commands

  • pvck — Check metadata on physical volumes
  • vgck — Check the consistency of volume group(s)

🧚 Daemons

  • dmeventd — Device-mapper event daemon
  • lvmpolld — LVM poll daemon

🛠️ Utility Commands

  • blkdeactivate — Utility to deactivate block devices
  • fsadm — Utility to resize or check a filesystem on a device
  • lvm_import_vdo — Utility to import VDO volumes into a new volume group
  • lvmdump — Create lvm2 information dumps for diagnostic purposes
  • lvmpersist — Manage persistent reservations on a group of block devices

🌈 Device-Mapper Commands

  • dmsetup — Low level logical volume management
  • dmstats — Device-mapper statistics management
  • dmvdostats — Display VDO statistics for device-mapper devices

🪦 Obsolete

  • lvmsadc — LVM system activity data collector
  • lvmsar — LVM system activity reporter

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

aaaand that's the whole thing, bestie, you ate it up fr fr 🫶 this little index comes to you from Red Hat, Inc., and it's LVM TOOLS 2.03.44(2), dated 2026-10-27. go forth and man responsibly, ily, periodt 💅✨🌸

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