VMFS6-LVM(8)

💖 VMFS6-LVM 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to vmfs6-lvm — she's the VMFS6 logical volume manager tool from the vmfs-tools family, and she lives in section 8 of your manual, which is giving "system administration commands" energy and honestly? iconic. grab a snack, we're doing extents 🍓

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vmfs6-lvm VOLUME... COMMAND

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so vmfs6-lvm is the program that lets you handle VMFS6 physical and logical volumes. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

the VOLUME you wanna open can be either a block device or an image file — pick your fighter, both slay.

⚠️ but here's the tea: when the VMFS spreads across several extents, you have to give all of them. every single one. like, all extents, bestie. don't be out here passing just one and acting surprised 😭

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🎀 COMMANDS 🎀

• remove — removes the last extent of the logical volume. that's it, that's the whole command.

🚨 THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. like, fr fr. it is highly recommended that the volume is not mounted at the same time — don't do the thing while it's mounted, please, i'm begging 🙈. this also means the tool shouldn't be run on the ESX service console. so don't. 💀

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

the legends behind all this ✨:

• Christophe Fillot <cf@utc.fr>
• Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
• Weafon Tsao <weafon.tsao@accelstor.com>
• Thomas Ward <teward@ubuntu.com>

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• vmfs6-fuse(8)

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🧚 NOTES 🧚

the mailto links, in case you wanna send a little hello 💌:

1. cf@utc.fr — mailto:cf@utc.fr
2. mh@glandium.org — mailto:mh@glandium.org
3. weafon.tsao@accelstor.com — mailto:weafon.tsao@accelstor.com
4. teward@ubuntu.com — mailto:teward@ubuntu.com

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and that's a wrap, bestie 🫶 this page is from vmfs-tools version 0.0.0-patched, dated 04/01/2024. go forth and manage those logical volumes responsibly, mwah 💅✨