Thursday 3 May 2012

LVM in RHEL 6


The Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a mechanism for virtualizing disks. It can create "virtual" disk partitions out of one or more physical hard drives, allowing you to grow, shrink, or move those partitions from drive to drive as your needs change. It also allows you to create larger partitions than you could achieve with a single drive.

LVM in RHEL 6

#Create Partitions
fdisk /dev/sdc
make 3 partitions
change system ID as 8e for Linux LVM

#Create physical volumes
pvcreate /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc2

Physical volume "/dev/sdc1" successfully created
Physical volume "/dev/sdc2" successfully created

pvdisplay
pvs

#Create Virtual Group
vgcreate vg0 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc2

Volume group "vg0" successfully created

vgdisplay
vgs

#Create Logical Volumes
lvcreate -L 2G Vg0 -n lv0

Logical volume "lv0" created

#Create File system on logical volumes
mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg0/lv0

#Edit /etc/fstab

/dev/vg0/lv0 /lvm ext3 defaults 0 0

#Mount logical volumes
mkdir /lvm
mount -a
mount

lvdisplay
lvs
lv0     vg0      -wi-ao  2.00g

#Extend logical volume
pvcreate /dev/sdc3
Physical volume "/dev/sdc3" successfully created

vgextend vg0 /dev/sdc3
Volume group "vg0" successfully extended

lvextend -L +1G /dev/vg0/lv0
Extending logical volume lv0 to 3.00 GiB
Logical volume lv0 successfully resized

resize2fs -p /dev/vg0/lv0
resize2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem at /dev/vg0/lv0 is mounted on /lvm; on-line resizing required
old desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 1
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/vg0/lv0 to 786432 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/vg0/lv0 is now 786432 blocks long.

lvs
lv0     vg0      -wi-ao  3.00g

#Reduce logical volume
lvreduce -L -500M /dev/vg0/lv0
WARNING: Reducing active and open logical volume to 2.51 GiB
THIS MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA (filesystem etc.)
Do you really want to reduce lv0? [y/n]: y
Reducing logical volume lv0 to 2.51 GiB
Logical volume lv0 successfully resized

resize2fs -p /dev/vg0/lv0
resize2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem at /dev/vg0/lv0 is mounted on /lvm; on-line resizing required
On-line shrinking from 786432 to 658432 not supported.

lvs
lv0     vg0      -wi-ao  2.51g

#Remove logical volume
vim /etc/fstab (edit fstab to dd lvm entry line)
mount -a
umount /lvm

lvremove /dev/Vg0/lv0
Do you really want to remove active logical volume lv0? [y/n]: y
Logical volume "lv0" successfully removed

Vgremove vg0
Volume group "vg0" successfully removed


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