1LVCREATE(8) System Manager's Manual LVCREATE(8)
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6 lvcreate - Create a logical volume
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9 lvcreate option_args position_args
10 [ option_args ]
11 [ position_args ]
12 -a|--activate y|n|ay
14 --addtag Tag
15 --alloc contiguous|cling|cling_by_tags|normal|anywhere|inherit
16 -A|--autobackup y|n
17 -H|--cache
18 --cachemetadataformat auto|1|2
19 --cachemode writethrough|writeback|passthrough
20 --cachepolicy String
21 --cachepool LV
22 --cachesettings String
23 -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT]
24 --commandprofile String
25 --compression y|n
26 --config String
27 -C|--contiguous y|n
28 -d|--debug
29 --deduplication y|n
30 --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore
31 --driverloaded y|n
32 --errorwhenfull y|n
33 -l|--extents Number[PERCENT]
34 -h|--help
35 -K|--ignoreactivationskip
36 --ignoremonitoring
37 --lockopt String
38 --longhelp
39 -j|--major Number
40 --[raid]maxrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
41 --metadataprofile String
42 --minor Number
43 --[raid]minrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
44 --mirrorlog core|disk
45 -m|--mirrors Number
46 --monitor y|n
47 -n|--name String
48 --nolocking
49 --nosync
50 --noudevsync
51 -p|--permission rw|r
52 -M|--persistent y|n
53 --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT]
54 --poolmetadataspare y|n
55 --profile String
56 -q|--quiet
57 -r|--readahead auto|none|Number
58 -R|--regionsize Size[m|UNIT]
59 --reportformat basic|json
60 -k|--setactivationskip y|n
61 -L|--size Size[m|UNIT]
62 -s|--snapshot
63 -i|--stripes Number
64 -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT]
65 -t|--test
66 -T|--thin
67 --thinpool LV
68 --type linear|striped|snapshot|mir‐
69 ror|raid|thin|cache|vdo|thin-pool|cache-pool|vdo-pool
70 --vdo
71 --vdopool LV
72 -v|--verbose
73 --version
74 -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT]
75 -W|--wipesignatures y|n
76 -y|--yes
77 -Z|--zero y|n
78
80 lvcreate creates a new LV in a VG. For standard LVs, this requires
81 allocating logical extents from the VG's free physical extents. If
82 there is not enough free space, the VG can be extended with other PVs
83 (vgextend(8)), or existing LVs can be reduced or removed (lvremove(8),
84 lvreduce(8).)
85 To control which PVs a new LV will use, specify one or more PVs as
87 position args at the end of the command line. lvcreate will allocate
88 physical extents only from the specified PVs.
89 lvcreate can also create snapshots of existing LVs, e.g. for backup
91 purposes. The data in a new snapshot LV represents the content of the
92 original LV from the time the snapshot was created.
93 RAID LVs can be created by specifying an LV type when creating the LV
95 (see lvmraid(7)). Different RAID levels require different numbers of
96 unique PVs be available in the VG for allocation.
97 Thin pools (for thin provisioning) and cache pools (for caching) are
99 represented by special LVs with types thin-pool and cache-pool (see
100 lvmthin(7) and lvmcache(7)). The pool LVs are not usable as standard
101 block devices, but the LV names act as references to the pools.
102 Thin LVs are thinly provisioned from a thin pool, and are created with
104 a virtual size rather than a physical size. A cache LV is the combina‐
105 tion of a standard LV with a cache pool, used to cache active portions
106 of the LV to improve performance.
107 VDO LVs are also provisioned volumes from a VDO pool, and are created
109 with a virtual size rather than a physical size (see lvmvdo(7)).
110 Usage notes
113 In the usage section below, --size Size can be replaced with --extents
114 Number. See descriptions in the options section.
115 In the usage section below, --name is omitted from the required
117 options, even though it is typically used. When the name is not speci‐
118 fied, a new LV name is generated with the "lvol" prefix and a unique
119 numeric suffix.
120 In the usage section below, when creating a pool and the name is omit‐
122 ted the new LV pool name is generated with the "vpool" for vdo-pools
123 for prefix and a unique numeric suffix.
124 Pool name can be specified together with VG name i.e.: vg00/mythinpool.
126
128 Create a linear LV.
129 lvcreate -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
131 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
132 [ --type linear ]
133 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
134 [ PV ... ]
135 -
136 Create a striped LV (infers --type striped).
138 lvcreate -i|--stripes Number -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
140 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
141 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
142 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
143 [ PV ... ]
144 -
145 Create a raid1 or mirror LV (infers --type raid1|mirror).
147 lvcreate -m|--mirrors Number -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
149 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
150 [ -R|--regionsize Size[m|UNIT] ]
151 [ --mirrorlog core|disk ]
152 [ --[raid]minrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT] ]
153 [ --[raid]maxrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT] ]
154 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
155 [ PV ... ]
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157 Create a raid LV (a specific raid level must be used, e.g. raid1).
159 lvcreate --type raid -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
161 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
162 [ -m|--mirrors Number ]
163 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
164 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
165 [ -R|--regionsize Size[m|UNIT] ]
166 [ --[raid]minrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT] ]
167 [ --[raid]maxrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT] ]
168 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
169 [ PV ... ]
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171 Create a raid10 LV.
173 lvcreate -m|--mirrors Number -i|--stripes Number
175 -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
176 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
177 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
178 [ -R|--regionsize Size[m|UNIT] ]
179 [ --[raid]minrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT] ]
180 [ --[raid]maxrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT] ]
181 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
182 [ PV ... ]
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184 Create a COW snapshot LV of an origin LV.
186 lvcreate -s|--snapshot -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] LV
188 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
189 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
190 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
191 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
192 [ --type snapshot ]
193 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
194 [ PV ... ]
195 -
196 Create a thin pool.
198 lvcreate --type thin-pool -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
200 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
201 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
202 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
203 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
204 [ --thinpool LV_new ]
205 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
206 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
207 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
208 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
209 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
210 [ PV ... ]
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212 Create a cache pool.
214 lvcreate --type cache-pool -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
216 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
217 [ -H|--cache ]
218 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
219 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
220 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
221 [ --cachemode writethrough|writeback|passthrough ]
222 [ --cachepolicy String ]
223 [ --cachesettings String ]
224 [ --cachemetadataformat auto|1|2 ]
225 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
226 [ PV ... ]
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228 Create a thin LV in a thin pool (infers --type thin).
230 lvcreate -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT] --thinpool LV_thinpool VG
232 [ -T|--thin ]
233 [ --type thin ]
234 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
235 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
236 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
237 -
238 Create a thin LV that is a snapshot of an existing thin LV
240 (infers --type thin).
241 lvcreate -s|--snapshot LV_thin
243 [ --type thin ]
244 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
245 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
246 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
247 -
248 Create a thin LV that is a snapshot of an external origin LV.
250 lvcreate --type thin --thinpool LV_thinpool LV
252 [ -T|--thin ]
253 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
254 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
255 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
256 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
257 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
258 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
259 -
260 Create a LV that returns VDO when used.
262 lvcreate --type vdo -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
264 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
265 [ -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT] ]
266 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
267 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
268 [ --vdo ]
269 [ --vdopool LV_new ]
270 [ --compression y|n ]
271 [ --deduplication y|n ]
272 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
273 [ PV ... ]
274 -
275 Create a thin LV, first creating a thin pool for it,
277 where the new thin pool is named by the --thinpool arg.
278 lvcreate --type thin -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT]
280 -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] --thinpool LV_new
281 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
282 [ -T|--thin ]
283 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
284 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
285 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
286 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
287 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
288 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
289 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
290 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
291 [ PV ... ]
292 -
293 Create a cache LV, first creating a new origin LV,
295 then combining it with the existing cache pool named
296 by the --cachepool arg.
297 lvcreate --type cache -L|--size Size[m|UNIT]
299 --cachepool LV_cachepool VG
300 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
301 [ -H|--cache ]
302 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
303 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
304 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
305 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
306 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
307 [ --cachemode writethrough|writeback|passthrough ]
308 [ --cachepolicy String ]
309 [ --cachesettings String ]
310 [ --cachemetadataformat auto|1|2 ]
311 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
312 [ PV ... ]
313 -
314 Common options for command:
316 [ -a|--activate y|n|ay ]
317 [ -A|--autobackup y|n ]
318 [ -C|--contiguous y|n ]
319 [ -K|--ignoreactivationskip ]
320 [ -j|--major Number ]
321 [ -n|--name String ]
322 [ -p|--permission rw|r ]
323 [ -M|--persistent y|n ]
324 [ -r|--readahead auto|none|Number ]
325 [ -k|--setactivationskip y|n ]
326 [ -W|--wipesignatures y|n ]
327 [ -Z|--zero y|n ]
328 [ --addtag Tag ]
329 [ --alloc contiguous|cling|cling_by_tags|normal|anywhere|inherit
330 ]
331 [ --ignoremonitoring ]
332 [ --metadataprofile String ]
333 [ --minor Number ]
334 [ --monitor y|n ]
335 [ --nosync ]
336 [ --noudevsync ]
337 [ --reportformat basic|json ]
338 Common options for lvm:
340 [ -d|--debug ]
341 [ -h|--help ]
342 [ -q|--quiet ]
343 [ -t|--test ]
344 [ -v|--verbose ]
345 [ -y|--yes ]
346 [ --commandprofile String ]
347 [ --config String ]
348 [ --driverloaded y|n ]
349 [ --lockopt String ]
350 [ --longhelp ]
351 [ --nolocking ]
352 [ --profile String ]
353 [ --version ]
354
356 -a|--activate y|n|ay
357 Controls the active state of the new LV. y makes the LV active,
358 or available. New LVs are made active by default. n makes the
359 LV inactive, or unavailable, only when possible. In some cases,
360 creating an LV requires it to be active. For example, COW snap‐
361 shots of an active origin LV can only be created in the active
362 state (this does not apply to thin snapshots). The --zero
363 option normally requires the LV to be active. If autoactivation
364 ay is used, the LV is only activated if it matches an item in
365 lvm.conf activation/auto_activation_volume_list. ay implies
366 --zero n and --wipesignatures n. See lvmlockd(8) for more
367 information about activation options for shared VGs.
368 --addtag Tag
370 Adds a tag to a PV, VG or LV. This option can be repeated to add
371 multiple tags at once. See lvm(8) for information about tags.
372 --alloc contiguous|cling|cling_by_tags|normal|anywhere|inherit
374 Determines the allocation policy when a command needs to allo‐
375 cate Physical Extents (PEs) from the VG. Each VG and LV has an
376 allocation policy which can be changed with vgchange/lvchange,
377 or overriden on the command line. normal applies common sense
378 rules such as not placing parallel stripes on the same PV.
379 inherit applies the VG policy to an LV. contiguous requires new
380 PEs be placed adjacent to existing PEs. cling places new PEs on
381 the same PV as existing PEs in the same stripe of the LV. If
382 there are sufficient PEs for an allocation, but normal does not
383 use them, anywhere will use them even if it reduces performance,
384 e.g. by placing two stripes on the same PV. Optional positional
385 PV args on the command line can also be used to limit which PVs
386 the command will use for allocation. See lvm(8) for more infor‐
387 mation about allocation.
388 -A|--autobackup y|n
390 Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically after a
391 change. Enabling this is strongly advised! See vgcfgbackup(8)
392 for more information.
393 -H|--cache
395 Specifies the command is handling a cache LV or cache pool. See
396 --type cache and --type cache-pool. See lvmcache(7) for more
397 information about LVM caching.
398 --cachemetadataformat auto|1|2
400 Specifies the cache metadata format used by cache target.
401 --cachemode writethrough|writeback|passthrough
403 Specifies when writes to a cache LV should be considered com‐
404 plete. writeback considers a write complete as soon as it is
405 stored in the cache pool. writethough considers a write com‐
406 plete only when it has been stored in both the cache pool and on
407 the origin LV. While writethrough may be slower for writes, it
408 is more resilient if something should happen to a device associ‐
409 ated with the cache pool LV. With passthrough, all reads are
410 served from the origin LV (all reads miss the cache) and all
411 writes are forwarded to the origin LV; additionally, write hits
412 cause cache block invalidates. See lvmcache(7) for more informa‐
413 tion.
414 --cachepolicy String
416 Specifies the cache policy for a cache LV. See lvmcache(7) for
417 more information.
418 --cachepool LV
420 The name of a cache pool.
421 --cachesettings String
423 Specifies tunable values for a cache LV in "Key = Value" form.
424 Repeat this option to specify multiple values. (The default
425 values should usually be adequate.) The special string value
426 default switches settings back to their default kernel values
427 and removes them from the list of settings stored in LVM meta‐
428 data. See lvmcache(7) for more information.
429 -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT]
431 The size of chunks in a snapshot, cache pool or thin pool. For
432 snapshots, the value must be a power of 2 between 4KiB and
433 512KiB and the default value is 4. For a cache pool the value
434 must be between 32KiB and 1GiB and the default value is 64. For
435 a thin pool the value must be between 64KiB and 1GiB and the
436 default value starts with 64 and scales up to fit the pool meta‐
437 data size within 128MiB, if the pool metadata size is not speci‐
438 fied. The value must be a multiple of 64KiB. See lvmthin(7)
439 and lvmcache(7) for more information.
440 --commandprofile String
442 The command profile to use for command configuration. See
443 lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles.
444 --compression y|n
446 Controls whether compression is enabled or disable for VDO vol‐
447 ume. See lvmvdo(7) for more information about VDO usage.
448 --config String
450 Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf set‐
451 tings. The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf, or may
452 use section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more information
453 about config.
454 -C|--contiguous y|n
456 Sets or resets the contiguous allocation policy for LVs.
457 Default is no contiguous allocation based on a next free princi‐
458 ple. It is only possible to change a non-contiguous allocation
459 policy to contiguous if all of the allocated physical extents in
460 the LV are already contiguous.
461 -d|--debug ...
463 Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail
464 of messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if configured).
465 --deduplication y|n
467 Controls whether deduplication is enabled or disable for VDO
468 volume. See lvmvdo(7) for more information about VDO usage.
469 --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore
471 Specifies how the device-mapper thin pool layer in the kernel
472 should handle discards. ignore causes the thin pool to ignore
473 discards. nopassdown causes the thin pool to process discards
474 itself to allow reuse of unneeded extents in the thin pool.
475 passdown causes the thin pool to process discards itself (like
476 nopassdown) and pass the discards to the underlying device. See
477 lvmthin(7) for more information.
478 --driverloaded y|n
480 If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper.
481 For testing and debugging.
482 --errorwhenfull y|n
484 Specifies thin pool behavior when data space is exhausted. When
485 yes, device-mapper will immediately return an error when a thin
486 pool is full and an I/O request requires space. When no,
487 device-mapper will queue these I/O requests for a period of time
488 to allow the thin pool to be extended. Errors are returned if
489 no space is available after the timeout. (Also see dm-thin-pool
490 kernel module option no_space_timeout.) See lvmthin(7) for more
491 information.
492 -l|--extents Number[PERCENT]
494 Specifies the size of the new LV in logical extents. The --size
495 and --extents options are alternate methods of specifying size.
496 The total number of physical extents used will be greater when
497 redundant data is needed for RAID levels. An alternate syntax
498 allows the size to be determined indirectly as a percentage of
499 the size of a related VG, LV, or set of PVs. The suffix %VG
500 denotes the total size of the VG, the suffix %FREE the remaining
501 free space in the VG, and the suffix %PVS the free space in the
502 specified PVs. For a snapshot, the size can be expressed as a
503 percentage of the total size of the origin LV with the suffix
504 %ORIGIN (100%ORIGIN provides space for the whole origin). When
505 expressed as a percentage, the size defines an upper limit for
506 the number of logical extents in the new LV. The precise number
507 of logical extents in the new LV is not determined until the
508 command has completed.
509 -h|--help
511 Display help text.
512 -K|--ignoreactivationskip
514 Ignore the "activation skip" LV flag during activation to allow
515 LVs with the flag set to be activated.
516 --ignoremonitoring
518 Do not interact with dmeventd unless --monitor is specified. Do
519 not use this if dmeventd is already monitoring a device.
520 --lockopt String
522 Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See lvm‐
523 lockd(8) for more information.
524 --longhelp
526 Display long help text.
527 -j|--major Number
529 Sets the major number of an LV block device.
530 --[raid]maxrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
532 Sets the maximum recovery rate for a RAID LV. The rate value is
533 an amount of data per second for each device in the array. Set‐
534 ting the rate to 0 means it will be unbounded. See lvmraid(7)
535 for more information.
536 --metadataprofile String
538 The metadata profile to use for command configuration. See
539 lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles.
540 --minor Number
542 Sets the minor number of an LV block device.
543 --[raid]minrecoveryrate Size[k|UNIT]
545 Sets the minimum recovery rate for a RAID LV. The rate value is
546 an amount of data per second for each device in the array. Set‐
547 ting the rate to 0 means it will be unbounded. See lvmraid(7)
548 for more information.
549 --mirrorlog core|disk
551 Specifies the type of mirror log for LVs with the "mirror" type
552 (does not apply to the "raid1" type.) disk is a persistent log
553 and requires a small amount of storage space, usually on a sepa‐
554 rate device from the data being mirrored. core is not persis‐
555 tent; the log is kept only in memory. In this case, the mirror
556 must be synchronized (by copying LV data from the first device
557 to others) each time the LV is activated, e.g. after reboot.
558 mirrored is a persistent log that is itself mirrored, but should
559 be avoided. Instead, use the raid1 type for log redundancy.
560 -m|--mirrors Number
562 Specifies the number of mirror images in addition to the origi‐
563 nal LV image, e.g. --mirrors 1 means there are two images of the
564 data, the original and one mirror image. Optional positional PV
565 args on the command line can specify the devices the images
566 should be placed on. There are two mirroring implementations:
567 "raid1" and "mirror". These are the names of the corresponding
568 LV types, or "segment types". Use the --type option to specify
569 which to use (raid1 is default, and mirror is legacy) Use
570 lvm.conf global/mirror_segtype_default and global/raid10_seg‐
571 type_default to configure the default types. See the --nosync
572 option for avoiding initial image synchronization. See lvm‐
573 raid(7) for more information.
574 --monitor y|n
576 Start (yes) or stop (no) monitoring an LV with dmeventd.
577 dmeventd monitors kernel events for an LV, and performs auto‐
578 mated maintenance for the LV in reponse to specific events. See
579 dmeventd(8) for more information.
580 -n|--name String
582 Specifies the name of a new LV. When unspecified, a default
583 name of "lvol#" is generated, where # is a number generated by
584 LVM.
585 --nolocking
587 Disable locking.
588 --nosync
590 Causes the creation of mirror, raid1, raid4, raid5 and raid10 to
591 skip the initial synchronization. In case of mirror, raid1 and
592 raid10, any data written afterwards will be mirrored, but the
593 original contents will not be copied. In case of raid4 and
594 raid5, no parity blocks will be written, though any data written
595 afterwards will cause parity blocks to be stored. This is use‐
596 ful for skipping a potentially long and resource intensive ini‐
597 tial sync of an empty mirror/raid1/raid4/raid5 and raid10 LV.
598 This option is not valid for raid6, because raid6 relies on
599 proper parity (P and Q Syndromes) being created during initial
600 synchronization in order to reconstruct proper user date in case
601 of device failures. raid0 and raid0_meta do not provide any
602 data copies or parity support and thus do not support initial
603 synchronization.
604 --noudevsync
606 Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for
607 notification from udev. It will continue irrespective of any
608 possible udev processing in the background. Only use this if
609 udev is not running or has rules that ignore the devices LVM
610 creates.
611 -p|--permission rw|r
613 Set access permission to read only r or read and write rw.
614 -M|--persistent y|n
616 When yes, makes the specified minor number persistent.
617 --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT]
619 Specifies the size of the new pool metadata LV.
620 --poolmetadataspare y|n
622 Enable or disable the automatic creation and management of a
623 spare pool metadata LV in the VG. A spare metadata LV is
624 reserved space that can be used when repairing a pool.
625 --profile String
627 An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on
628 the command.
629 -q|--quiet ...
631 Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --ver‐
632 bose. Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with answer
633 'no'.
634 -r|--readahead auto|none|Number
636 Sets read ahead sector count of an LV. auto is the default
637 which allows the kernel to choose a suitable value automati‐
638 cally. none is equivalent to zero.
639 -R|--regionsize Size[m|UNIT]
641 Size of each raid or mirror synchronization region. lvm.conf
642 activation/raid_region_size can be used to configure a default.
643 --reportformat basic|json
645 Overrides current output format for reports which is defined
646 globally by the report/output_format setting in lvm.conf. basic
647 is the original format with columns and rows. If there is more
648 than one report per command, each report is prefixed with the
649 report name for identification. json produces report output in
650 JSON format. See lvmreport(7) for more information.
651 -k|--setactivationskip y|n
653 Persistently sets (yes) or clears (no) the "activation skip"
654 flag on an LV. An LV with this flag set is not activated unless
655 the --ignoreactivationskip option is used by the activation com‐
656 mand. This flag is set by default on new thin snapshot LVs.
657 The flag is not applied to deactivation. The current value of
658 the flag is indicated in the lvs lv_attr bits.
659 -L|--size Size[m|UNIT]
661 Specifies the size of the new LV. The --size and --extents
662 options are alternate methods of specifying size. The total
663 number of physical extents used will be greater when redundant
664 data is needed for RAID levels.
665 -s|--snapshot
667 Create a snapshot. Snapshots provide a "frozen image" of an ori‐
668 gin LV. The snapshot LV can be used, e.g. for backups, while
669 the origin LV continues to be used. This option can create a
670 COW (copy on write) snapshot, or a thin snapshot (in a thin
671 pool.) Thin snapshots are created when the origin is a thin LV
672 and the size option is NOT specified. Thin snapshots share the
673 same blocks in the thin pool, and do not allocate new space from
674 the VG. Thin snapshots are created with the "activation skip"
675 flag, see --setactivationskip. A thin snapshot of a non-thin
676 "external origin" LV is created when a thin pool is specified.
677 Unprovisioned blocks in the thin snapshot LV are read from the
678 external origin LV. The external origin LV must be read-only.
679 See lvmthin(7) for more information about LVM thin provisioning.
680 COW snapshots are created when a size is specified. The size is
681 allocated from space in the VG, and is the amount of space that
682 can be used for saving COW blocks as writes occur to the origin
683 or snapshot. The size chosen should depend upon the amount of
684 writes that are expected; often 20% of the origin LV is enough.
685 If COW space runs low, it can be extended with lvextend (shrink‐
686 ing is also allowed with lvreduce.) A small amount of the COW
687 snapshot LV size is used to track COW block locations, so the
688 full size is not available for COW data blocks. Use lvs to
689 check how much space is used, and see --monitor to to automati‐
690 cally extend the size to avoid running out of space.
691 -i|--stripes Number
693 Specifies the number of stripes in a striped LV. This is the
694 number of PVs (devices) that a striped LV is spread across. Data
695 that appears sequential in the LV is spread across multiple
696 devices in units of the stripe size (see --stripesize). This
697 does not change existing allocated space, but only applies to
698 space being allocated by the command. When creating a RAID
699 4/5/6 LV, this number does not include the extra devices that
700 are required for parity. The largest number depends on the RAID
701 type (raid0: 64, raid10: 32, raid4/5: 63, raid6: 62), and when
702 unspecified, the default depends on the RAID type (raid0: 2,
703 raid10: 2, raid4/5: 3, raid6: 5.) To stripe a new raid LV
704 across all PVs by default, see lvm.conf alloca‐
705 tion/raid_stripe_all_devices.
706 -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT]
708 The amount of data that is written to one device before moving
709 to the next in a striped LV.
710 -t|--test
712 Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is
713 implemented by disabling all metadata writing but nevertheless
714 returning success to the calling function. This may lead to
715 unusual error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool
716 relies on reading back metadata it believes has changed but
717 hasn't.
718 -T|--thin
720 Specifies the command is handling a thin LV or thin pool. See
721 --type thin, --type thin-pool, and --virtualsize. See
722 lvmthin(7) for more information about LVM thin provisioning.
723 --thinpool LV
725 The name of a thin pool LV.
726 --type linear|striped|snapshot|mir‐
728 ror|raid|thin|cache|vdo|thin-pool|cache-pool|vdo-pool
729 The LV type, also known as "segment type" or "segtype". See
730 usage descriptions for the specific ways to use these types.
731 For more information about redundancy and performance (raid<N>,
732 mirror, striped, linear) see lvmraid(7). For thin provisioning
733 (thin, thin-pool) see lvmthin(7). For performance caching
734 (cache, cache-pool) see lvmcache(7). For copy-on-write snap‐
735 shots (snapshot) see usage definitions. For VDO (vdo) see
736 lvmvdo(7). Several commands omit an explicit type option
737 because the type is inferred from other options or shortcuts
738 (e.g. --stripes, --mirrors, --snapshot, --virtualsize, --thin,
739 --cache, --vdo). Use inferred types with care because it can
740 lead to unexpected results.
741 --vdo
743 Specifies the command is handling VDO LV. See --type vdo. See
744 lvmvdo(7) for more information about VDO usage.
745 --vdopool LV
747 The name of a VDO pool LV. See lvmvdo(7) for more information
748 about VDO usage.
749 -v|--verbose ...
751 Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the
752 detail of messages sent to stdout and stderr.
753 --version
755 Display version information.
756 -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT]
758 The virtual size of a new thin LV. See lvmthin(7) for more
759 information about LVM thin provisioning. Using virtual size
760 (-V) and actual size (-L) together creates a sparse LV.
761 lvm.conf global/sparse_segtype_default determines the default
762 segment type used to create a sparse LV. Anything written to a
763 sparse LV will be returned when reading from it. Reading from
764 other areas of the LV will return blocks of zeros. When using a
765 snapshot to create a sparse LV, a hidden virtual device is cre‐
766 ated using the zero target, and the LV has the suffix _vorigin.
767 Snapshots are less efficient than thin provisioning when creat‐
768 ing large sparse LVs (GiB).
769 -W|--wipesignatures y|n
771 Controls detection and subsequent wiping of signatures on new
772 LVs. There is a prompt for each signature detected to confirm
773 its wiping (unless --yes is used to override confirmations.)
774 When not specified, signatures are wiped whenever zeroing is
775 done (see --zero). This behaviour can be configured with
776 lvm.conf allocation/wipe_signatures_when_zeroing_new_lvs. If
777 blkid wiping is used (lvm.conf allocation/use_blkid_wiping) and
778 LVM is compiled with blkid wiping support, then the blkid(8)
779 library is used to detect the signatures (use blkid -k to list
780 the signatures that are recognized). Otherwise, native LVM code
781 is used to detect signatures (only MD RAID, swap and LUKS signa‐
782 tures are detected in this case.) The LV is not wiped if the
783 read only flag is set.
784 -y|--yes
786 Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume
787 the answer yes. Use with extreme caution. (For automatic no,
788 see -qq.)
789 -Z|--zero y|n
791 Controls zeroing of the first 4KiB of data in the new LV.
792 Default is y. Snapshot COW volumes are always zeroed. For thin
793 pools, this controls zeroing of provisioned blocks. LV is not
794 zeroed if the read only flag is set. Warning: trying to mount
795 an unzeroed LV can cause the system to hang.
796
798 VG
799 Volume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names. For lvcreate,
800 the required VG positional arg may be omitted when the VG name
801 is included in another option, e.g. --name VG/LV.
802 LV
804 Logical Volume name. See lvm(8) for valid names. An LV posi‐
805 tional arg generally includes the VG name and LV name, e.g.
806 VG/LV. LV followed by _<type> indicates that an LV of the given
807 type is required. (raid represents raid<N> type)
808 PV
810 Physical Volume name, a device path under /dev. For commands
811 managing physical extents, a PV positional arg generally accepts
812 a suffix indicating a range (or multiple ranges) of physical
813 extents (PEs). When the first PE is omitted, it defaults to the
814 start of the device, and when the last PE is omitted it defaults
815 to end. Start and end range (inclusive): PV[:PE-PE]... Start
816 and length range (counting from 0): PV[:PE+PE]...
817 String
819 See the option description for information about the string con‐
820 tent.
821 Size[UNIT]
823 Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input
824 units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capi‐
825 talization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default
826 input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT rep‐
827 resents other possible input units: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE. b|B is
828 bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is kilobytes, m|M is
829 megabytes, g|G is gigabytes, t|T is terabytes, p|P is petabytes,
830 e|E is exabytes. (This should not be confused with the output
831 control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)
832
834 See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm.
835 For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG
836 parameter.
837
839 Alternate command forms, advanced command usage, and listing of all
840 valid syntax for completeness.
841 Create an LV that returns errors when used.
843 lvcreate --type error -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
845 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
846 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
847 -
848 Create an LV that returns zeros when read.
850 lvcreate --type zero -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
852 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
853 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
854 -
855 Create a linear LV.
857 lvcreate --type linear -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
859 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
860 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
861 [ PV ... ]
862 -
863 Create a striped LV (also see lvcreate --stripes).
865 lvcreate --type striped -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
867 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
868 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
869 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
870 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
871 [ PV ... ]
872 -
873 Create a mirror LV (also see --type raid1).
875 lvcreate --type mirror -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
877 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
878 [ -m|--mirrors Number ]
879 [ -R|--regionsize Size[m|UNIT] ]
880 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
881 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
882 [ --mirrorlog core|disk ]
883 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
884 [ PV ... ]
885 -
886 Create a COW snapshot LV of an origin LV
888 (also see --snapshot).
889 lvcreate --type snapshot -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] LV
891 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
892 [ -s|--snapshot ]
893 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
894 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
895 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
896 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
897 [ PV ... ]
898 -
899 Create a sparse COW snapshot LV of a virtual origin LV
901 (also see --snapshot).
902 lvcreate --type snapshot -L|--size Size[m|UNIT]
904 -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT] VG
905 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
906 [ -s|--snapshot ]
907 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
908 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
909 [ PV ... ]
910 -
911 Create a sparse COW snapshot LV of a virtual origin LV.
913 lvcreate -s|--snapshot -L|--size Size[m|UNIT]
915 -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT] VG
916 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
917 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
918 [ --type snapshot ]
919 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
920 [ PV ... ]
921 -
922 Create a thin pool (infers --type thin-pool).
924 lvcreate -T|--thin -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
926 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
927 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
928 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
929 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
930 [ --type thin-pool ]
931 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
932 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
933 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
934 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
935 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
936 [ PV ... ]
937 -
938 Create a thin pool named by the --thinpool arg
940 (infers --type thin-pool).
941 lvcreate -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] --thinpool LV_new VG
943 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
944 [ -T|--thin ]
945 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
946 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
947 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
948 [ --type thin-pool ]
949 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
950 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
951 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
952 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
953 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
954 [ PV ... ]
955 -
956 Create a cache pool named by the --cachepool arg
958 (variant, uses --cachepool in place of --name).
959 lvcreate --type cache-pool -L|--size Size[m|UNIT]
961 --cachepool LV_new VG
962 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
963 [ -H|--cache ]
964 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
965 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
966 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
967 [ --cachemode writethrough|writeback|passthrough ]
968 [ --cachepolicy String ]
969 [ --cachesettings String ]
970 [ --cachemetadataformat auto|1|2 ]
971 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
972 [ PV ... ]
973 -
974 Create a thin LV in a thin pool.
976 lvcreate --type thin -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT]
978 --thinpool LV_thinpool VG
979 [ -T|--thin ]
980 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
981 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
982 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
983 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
984 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
985 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
986 -
987 Create a thin LV in a thin pool named in the first arg
989 (variant, also see --thinpool for naming pool).
990 lvcreate --type thin -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT] LV_thinpool
992 [ -T|--thin ]
993 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
994 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
995 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
996 -
997 Create a thin LV in the thin pool named in the first arg
999 (variant, infers --type thin, also see --thinpool for
1000 naming pool.)
1001 lvcreate -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT] LV_thinpool
1003 [ -T|--thin ]
1004 [ --type thin ]
1005 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
1006 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
1007 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1008 -
1009 Create a thin LV that is a snapshot of an existing thin LV.
1011 lvcreate --type thin LV_thin
1013 [ -T|--thin ]
1014 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
1015 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
1016 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1017 -
1018 Create a thin LV that is a snapshot of an existing thin LV
1020 (infers --type thin).
1021 lvcreate -T|--thin LV_thin
1023 [ --type thin ]
1024 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
1025 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
1026 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1027 -
1028 Create a thin LV that is a snapshot of an external origin LV
1030 (infers --type thin).
1031 lvcreate -s|--snapshot --thinpool LV_thinpool LV
1033 [ --type thin ]
1034 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
1035 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
1036 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1037 -
1038 Create a VDO LV with VDO pool.
1040 lvcreate --vdo -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
1042 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
1043 [ -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT] ]
1044 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
1045 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1046 [ --vdopool LV_new ]
1047 [ --compression y|n ]
1048 [ --deduplication y|n ]
1049 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1050 [ PV ... ]
1051 -
1052 Create a VDO LV with VDO pool.
1054 lvcreate --vdopool LV_new -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG
1056 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
1057 [ -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT] ]
1058 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
1059 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1060 [ --vdo ]
1061 [ --type vdo ]
1062 [ --compression y|n ]
1063 [ --deduplication y|n ]
1064 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1065 [ PV ... ]
1066 -
1067 Create a thin LV, first creating a thin pool for it,
1069 where the new thin pool is named by the --thinpool arg
1070 (variant, infers --type thin).
1071 lvcreate -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT] -L|--size Size[m|UNIT]
1073 --thinpool LV_new
1074 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
1075 [ -T|--thin ]
1076 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1077 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
1078 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1079 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
1080 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
1081 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
1082 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
1083 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1084 [ PV ... ]
1085 -
1086 Create a thin LV, first creating a thin pool for it,
1088 where the new thin pool is named by the --thinpool arg
1089 (variant, infers --type thin).
1090 lvcreate -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT] -L|--size Size[m|UNIT]
1092 --thinpool LV_new VG
1093 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
1094 [ -T|--thin ]
1095 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1096 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
1097 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1098 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
1099 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
1100 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
1101 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
1102 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1103 [ PV ... ]
1104 -
1105 Create a thin LV, first creating a thin pool for it,
1107 where the new thin pool is named in the first arg,
1108 or the new thin pool name is generated when the first
1109 arg is a VG name.
1110 lvcreate --type thin -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT]
1112 -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG|LV_new
1113 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
1114 [ -T|--thin ]
1115 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1116 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
1117 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1118 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
1119 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
1120 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
1121 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
1122 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1123 [ PV ... ]
1124 -
1125 Create a thin LV, first creating a thin pool for it,
1127 where the new thin pool is named in the first arg,
1128 or the new thin pool name is generated when the first
1129 arg is a VG name (variant, infers --type thin).
1130 lvcreate -T|--thin -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT]
1132 -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] VG|LV_new
1133 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
1134 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1135 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
1136 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1137 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
1138 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
1139 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
1140 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
1141 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1142 [ PV ... ]
1143 -
1144 Create a thin LV, first creating a thin pool for it
1146 (infers --type thin).
1147 Create a sparse snapshot of a virtual origin LV
1148 (infers --type snapshot).
1149 Chooses --type thin or --type snapshot according to
1150 config setting sparse_segtype_default.
1151 lvcreate -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] -V|--virtualsize Size[m|UNIT] VG
1153 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
1154 [ -s|--snapshot ]
1155 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1156 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
1157 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1158 [ --type snapshot ]
1159 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
1160 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
1161 [ --discards passdown|nopassdown|ignore ]
1162 [ --errorwhenfull y|n ]
1163 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1164 [ PV ... ]
1165 -
1166 Create a cache LV, first creating a new origin LV,
1168 then combining it with the existing cache pool named
1169 by the --cachepool arg (variant, infers --type cache).
1170 lvcreate -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] --cachepool LV_cachepool VG
1172 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
1173 [ -H|--cache ]
1174 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1175 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
1176 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1177 [ --type cache ]
1178 [ --cachemode writethrough|writeback|passthrough ]
1179 [ --cachepolicy String ]
1180 [ --cachesettings String ]
1181 [ --cachemetadataformat auto|1|2 ]
1182 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1183 [ PV ... ]
1184 -
1185 Create a cache LV, first creating a new origin LV,
1187 then combining it with the existing cache pool named
1188 in the first arg (variant, also use --cachepool).
1189 lvcreate --type cache -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] LV_cachepool
1191 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
1192 [ -H|--cache ]
1193 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1194 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
1195 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1196 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
1197 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
1198 [ --cachemode writethrough|writeback|passthrough ]
1199 [ --cachepolicy String ]
1200 [ --cachesettings String ]
1201 [ --cachemetadataformat auto|1|2 ]
1202 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1203 [ PV ... ]
1204 -
1205 When LV is a cache pool, create a cache LV,
1207 first creating a new origin LV, then combining it with
1208 the existing cache pool named in the first arg
1209 (variant, infers --type cache, also use --cachepool).
1210 When LV is not a cache pool, convert the specified LV
1211 to type cache after creating a new cache pool LV to use
1212 (use lvconvert).
1213 lvcreate -H|--cache -L|--size Size[m|UNIT] LV
1215 [ -l|--extents Number[PERCENT] ]
1216 [ -c|--chunksize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1217 [ -i|--stripes Number ]
1218 [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ]
1219 [ --cachemode writethrough|writeback|passthrough ]
1220 [ --cachepolicy String ]
1221 [ --cachesettings String ]
1222 [ --cachemetadataformat auto|1|2 ]
1223 [ --poolmetadatasize Size[m|UNIT] ]
1224 [ --poolmetadataspare y|n ]
1225 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
1226 [ PV ... ]
1227 -
1228
1231 Create a striped LV with 3 stripes, a stripe size of 8KiB and a size of
1232 100MiB. The LV name is chosen by lvcreate.
1233 lvcreate -i 3 -I 8 -L 100m vg00
1234 Create a raid1 LV with two images, and a useable size of 500 MiB. This
1236 operation requires two devices, one for each mirror image. RAID meta‐
1237 data (superblock and bitmap) is also included on the two devices.
1238 lvcreate --type raid1 -m1 -L 500m -n mylv vg00
1239 Create a mirror LV with two images, and a useable size of 500 MiB.
1241 This operation requires three devices: two for mirror images and one
1242 for a disk log.
1243 lvcreate --type mirror -m1 -L 500m -n mylv vg00
1244 Create a mirror LV with 2 images, and a useable size of 500 MiB. This
1246 operation requires 2 devices because the log is in memory.
1247 lvcreate --type mirror -m1 --mirrorlog core -L 500m -n mylv vg00
1248 Create a copy-on-write snapshot of an LV:
1250 lvcreate --snapshot --size 100m --name mysnap vg00/mylv
1251 Create a copy-on-write snapshot with a size sufficient for overwriting
1253 20% of the size of the original LV.
1254 lvcreate -s -l 20%ORIGIN -n mysnap vg00/mylv
1255 Create a sparse LV with 1TiB of virtual space, and actual space just
1257 under 100MiB.
1258 lvcreate --snapshot --virtualsize 1t --size 100m --name mylv vg00
1259 Create a linear LV with a usable size of 64MiB on specific physical
1261 extents.
1262 lvcreate -L 64m -n mylv vg00 /dev/sda:0-7 /dev/sdb:0-7
1263 Create a RAID5 LV with a usable size of 5GiB, 3 stripes, a stripe size
1265 of 64KiB, using a total of 4 devices (including one for parity).
1266 lvcreate --type raid5 -L 5G -i 3 -I 64 -n mylv vg00
1267 Create a RAID5 LV using all of the free space in the VG and spanning
1269 all the PVs in the VG (note that the command will fail if there are
1270 more than 8 PVs in the VG, in which case -i 7 must be used to get to
1271 the current maximum of 8 devices including parity for RaidLVs).
1272 lvcreate --config allocation/raid_stripe_all_devices=1
1273 --type raid5 -l 100%FREE -n mylv vg00
1274 Create RAID10 LV with a usable size of 5GiB, using 2 stripes, each on a
1276 two-image mirror. (Note that the -i and -m arguments behave differ‐
1277 ently: -i specifies the total number of stripes, but -m specifies the
1278 number of images in addition to the first image).
1279 lvcreate --type raid10 -L 5G -i 2 -m 1 -n mylv vg00
1280 Create a 1TiB thin LV mythin, with 256GiB thinpool tpool0 in vg00.
1282 lvcreate --T --size 256G --name mythin vg00/tpool0
1283 Create a 1TiB thin LV, first creating a new thin pool for it, where the
1285 thin pool has 100MiB of space, uses 2 stripes, has a 64KiB stripe size,
1286 and 256KiB chunk size.
1287 lvcreate --type thin --name mylv --thinpool mypool
1288 -V 1t -L 100m -i 2 -I 64 -c 256 vg00
1289 Create a thin snapshot of a thin LV (the size option must not be used,
1291 otherwise a copy-on-write snapshot would be created).
1292 lvcreate --snapshot --name mysnap vg00/thinvol
1293 Create a thin snapshot of the read-only inactive LV named "origin"
1295 which becomes an external origin for the thin snapshot LV.
1296 lvcreate --snapshot --name mysnap --thinpool mypool vg00/origin
1297 Create a cache pool from a fast physical device. The cache pool can
1299 then be used to cache an LV.
1300 lvcreate --type cache-pool -L 1G -n my_cpool vg00 /dev/fast1
1301 Create a cache LV, first creating a new origin LV on a slow physical
1303 device, then combining the new origin LV with an existing cache pool.
1304 lvcreate --type cache --cachepool my_cpool
1305 -L 100G -n mylv vg00 /dev/slow1
1306 Create a VDO LV vdo0 with VDOPoolLV size of 10GiB and name vpool1.
1308 lvcreate --vdo --size 10G --name vdo0 vg00/vpool1
1309
1311 lvm(8) lvm.conf(5) lvmconfig(8)
1312 pvchange(8) pvck(8) pvcreate(8) pvdisplay(8) pvmove(8) pvremove(8)
1314 pvresize(8) pvs(8) pvscan(8)
1315 vgcfgbackup(8) vgcfgrestore(8) vgchange(8) vgck(8) vgcreate(8) vgcon‐
1317 vert(8) vgdisplay(8) vgexport(8) vgextend(8) vgimport(8) vgimport‐
1318 clone(8) vgmerge(8) vgmknodes(8) vgreduce(8) vgremove(8) vgrename(8)
1319 vgs(8) vgscan(8) vgsplit(8)
1320 lvcreate(8) lvchange(8) lvconvert(8) lvdisplay(8) lvextend(8) lvre‐
1322 duce(8) lvremove(8) lvrename(8) lvresize(8) lvs(8) lvscan(8)
1323 lvm-fullreport(8) lvm-lvpoll(8) lvm2-activation-generator(8) blkdeacti‐
1325 vate(8) lvmdump(8)
1326 dmeventd(8) lvmpolld(8) lvmlockd(8) lvmlockctl(8) cmirrord(8) lvmd‐
1328 busd(8)
1329 lvmsystemid(7) lvmreport(7) lvmraid(7) lvmthin(7) lvmcache(7)
1331Red Hat, Inc. LVM TOOLS 2.03.09(2) (2020-03-26) LVCREATE(8)