LVM-INDEX(7)

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💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this is LVM-INDEX(7) — the LVM command index 🎀

Like, it's literally a big alphabetical list of every LVM manual page out there. A whole directory of glow-ups. Use it to find your way around. iykyk 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This page is your little index, alphabetized and everything, of all the LVM manual pages. Think of it as the table of contents that ate and left no crumbs. 👑

📚 INDEX 📚

🅱️ B

  • blkdeactivate — the utility that deactivates block devices. bye-bye devices 🫶

🅲 C

  • config — shows you config info and lets you mess with it ✨

🅳 D

  • devtypes — lists out the built-in block device types it recognises 🔍
  • dmeventd — the device-mapper event daemon, just vibing in the background 👀
  • dmsetup — low level logical volume management, the OG layer underneath everything
  • dmstats — device-mapper statistics management, numbers bestie 📊
  • dmvdostats — shows VDO statistics for device-mapper devices
  • dumpconfig — shows you configuration info and lets you manipulate it too

🅵 F

  • formats — lists the metadata formats you've got available
  • fsadm — the utility to resize or check a filesystem sitting on a device 🧚
  • fullreport — displays the full report, no skimping, all of it 💅

🅷 H

  • help — displays help for commands. yes bestie, help exists, use it 😭

🅻 L

  • lastlog — shows you the log report from the last command you ran
  • lvchange — change the attributes of logical volume(s)
  • lvconvert — change a logical volume's layout (a little LV makeover 🔥)
  • lvcreate — create a logical volume 💖
  • lvdisplay — display info about a logical volume
  • lvextend — add space to a logical volume, growth szn 🌱
  • lvm — the LVM tools themselves
  • lvm.conf — the configuration file for LVM2
  • lvm_import_vdo — utility to import VDO volumes into a new volume group
  • lvmautoactivation — LVM autoactivation ✨
  • lvmcache — LVM caching, the speed-up arc
  • lvmconfig — display and manipulate configuration information
  • lvmdevices — manage the devices file
  • lvmdiskscan — lists devices that might be usable as physical volumes 👀
  • lvmdump — creates lvm2 information dumps for diagnostic purposes (for when you gotta send receipts 🧾)
  • lvmpersist — manage persistent reservations on a group of block devices
  • lvmpolld — the LVM poll daemon, eternally waiting 🕰️
  • lvmraid — LVM RAID
  • lvmreport — LVM reporting and all the related features that come with it
  • lvmsadc — the LVM system activity data collector
  • lvmsar — the LVM system activity reporter
  • lvmsystemid — LVM system ID
  • lvmthin — LVM thin provisioning 🦋
  • lvmvdo — support for Virtual Data Optimizer in LVM
  • lvpoll — continues a poll operation on a logical volume that's already been initiated
  • lvreduce — reduce the size of a logical volume 📉
  • lvremove — removes logical volume(s) from the system. gone. periodt 💀
  • lvrename — rename a logical volume
  • lvresize — resize a logical volume
  • lvs — display information about logical volumes
  • lvscan — lists every logical volume in every volume group 🔍

🅿️ P

  • pvchange — change the attributes of physical volume(s)
  • pvck — check the metadata on physical volumes
  • pvcreate — initialize physical volume(s) so LVM can use them 💖
  • pvdisplay — display all sorts of attributes of physical volume(s)
  • pvmove — move extents from one physical volume to another 🚚
  • pvremove — removes LVM label(s) from physical volume(s)
  • pvresize — resize physical volume(s)
  • pvs — display information about physical volumes
  • pvscan — lists all physical volumes

🆂 S

  • segtypes — lists the segment types available to you
  • systemid — displays the system ID (if there even is one) currently set on this host 🖥️

🆃 T

  • tags — lists the tags defined on this host 🏷️

🆅 V

  • version — displays software and driver version information, for when someone asks "what version are you on" 📌
  • vgcfgbackup — backup volume group configuration(s)
  • vgcfgrestore — restore volume group configuration
  • vgchange — change volume group attributes
  • vgck — check the consistency of volume group(s)
  • vgconvert — Removed: vgconvert has been removed along with the lvm1 format. not me mourning her 😭 she's gone bestie
  • vgcreate — create a volume group 👑
  • vgdisplay — display volume group information
  • vgexport — unregister volume group(s) from the system
  • vgextend — add physical volumes to a volume group
  • vgimport — register an exported volume group with the system
  • vgimportclone — import a VG from cloned PVs
  • vgimportdevices — add devices for a VG to the devices file
  • 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
  • vgs — display information about volume groups
  • vgscan — search for all volume groups 🔍
  • vgsplit — move physical volumes into a new or an existing volume group

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

lvm(8), lvm-categories(7)

okay that's the whole thing bestie, you're officially indexed 💅✨

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