RHCSA-B5.Create Logical Volume

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5.Create Logical Volume

  • Create a new logical volume as follows:

Task Requirements

  • Logical volume name database, volume group is datastorage, size is 60 PE size s
  • The PESIZE of datastore is 16MiB
  • Format into an ext4 file system. Automatically mount to/mnt/data at system startup

Complete steps

  • Create a partition on an empty disk first
  • If one PE is 16M, 60 PE is 960M and the smallest partition size is greater than 950M
  • If one extension is fast 20M, 45 extensions require a partition size greater than 900M
  • Use -s to specify the size of PE 16M when creating volume group vg. Note that the name of the volume group is datastorage
  • When creating the logical volume lv, specify 60 PE s with a small l, note that the name of the logical volume is database
lsblk
parted /dev/vdb
 (parted) print
 (parted) mkpart primary 1305M 3000M
 (parted) quit
#Pared can also be replaced with the fdisk command to create partitions
fdisk /dev/vdb # Find which empty disk to partition first
pvcreate /dev/vdb2 # Create a PV for the specified partition first
vgcreate -s 16M datastorage /dev/vdb2 # Creating a vg of a specified size
lvcreate -l 60 -n database datastorage # Creates a logical volume that is injured and sized in a specified volume group
mkfs.ext4 /dev/datastorage/database # Create a file system and format it
mkdir /mnt/data #Create mount directory
vim /etc/fstab # Configure boot-up automount
 /dev/datastorage/database /mnt/data ext4 defaults 0 0
mount -a # View hangings
df -h # View partitions
pvdisplay
vgdisplay
lvdisplay
  • That's it, restart it now to see if all of the things ahead are finished, and if it's a good name, do it again.

Inspection Points of Knowledge

Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

  • LVM: Logical Volume Manager allows easy-to-operate abstraction layers for volumes.
  • Includes resizing the file system, allowing the reorganization of the file system among multiple physical devices, and the LVM can resiliently change the capacity of the LVM

The Principle and Process of LVM Logical Volume Implementation

  • Specify a storage block device as a physical volume, and organize one or more underlying block devices into a logical device PV physical volume
  • Create a volume group VG from one or more physical volumes defined by a fixed size physical area (PE)
  • Logical Volume LVS created on a physical volume is composed of a physical area (PE)
  • Create a file system on a logical volume and mount it

Logical Volume Management Tool

  • Related tools come from the lvm2 package
[root@centos8 ~]#yum -y install lvm2
  • Show Create Delete pv Physical Volume
pvs #Brief pv information display
pvdisplay #Real-world pv details
pvcreate /dev/DEVICE
pvremove /dev/DEVICE
  • Show Create Management vg Volume Group
vgs
vgdisplay
vgcreate -s 16M vg0 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc #Specify PE size, default 4M
vgextend <Existing Volume Group Name> <Physical Volume> [There can be multiple]# Dynamically expands an LVM volume group by adding physical volumes to the volume group to increase its capacity.
vgreduce <Existing Volume Group Name> <Physical Volume> [There can be multiple]# Reduce volume group capacity by deleting physical volumes in the LVM volume group. You cannot delete the last remaining physical volume in the LVM volume group.
  • Show Create Managed lv Logical Volume
  • Large L specifies the specific value, and small l specifies the proportion
lvs
Lvdisplay
lvcreate -L #[mMgGtT] -n NAME VolumeGroup
lvcreate -L 200m -n rhel rhcsa
lvcreate -l 60 -n yourHermes testvg
lvcreate -l 60%VG -n mylv testvg
lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n yourlv testvg
lvremove /dev/VG_NAME/LV_NAME 

Create LVM Example

#Create physical volume
pvcreate /dev/sda3
pvcreate /dev/sdac6
#Assign physical volumes to volume groups
vgcreate vg0 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdac6
#Creating logical volumes from volume groups
lvcreate -L 256M -n data vg0
#mkfs.xfs /dev/vg0/data
#mount
mount /dev/vg0/data /mnt/data

Online Extended Logical Volume

  • Expanding logical volumes in one step with the -r parameter does not require a two-step expansion

  • One-step expansion of cubicles and file systems
    lvresize -r -l +100%FREE /dev/VG_NAME/LV_NAME

  • Two-step implementation

#The first step is to achieve spatial expansion of the logical volume
lvextend -L [+]#[mMgGtT] /dev/VG_NAME/LV_NAME
#Step 2 Extension of File System
#For ext
resize2fs /dev/VG_NAME/LV_NAME
#For xfs
xfs_growfs MOUNTPOINT

Reduce Logical Volume

  • Note: Reduction is at risk of data corruption. It is recommended that you back up and then reduce. Reduction is not supported by the xfs file system
umount /dev/VG_NAME/LV_NAME
e2fsck -f /dev/VG_NAME/LV_NAME
resize2fs /dev/VG_NAME/LV_NAME #[mMgGtT]
lvreduce -L [-]#[mMgGtT] /dev/VG_NAME/LV_NAME
mount /dev/VG_NAME/LV_NAME mountpoint

Keywords: Linux Operation & Maintenance vim lvm RHCE

Added by Pantho on Thu, 30 Sep 2021 21:11:48 +0300