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Why do I need a physical volume for LVM?
This is one of the reasons I prefer to have one big physical volume on the VMs that is separate from the /boot and other initial parts. This allows you to create a whole disk as an LVM physical disk ( pvcreate /dev/sdb ). Then if you need to do a resize, none of the file system changes need to happen because it is directly on disk.
How to Mount SDB directly or using LVM partitions on SDA?
You can directly create a file system on /dev/sdb and then mount it in your desired directory. Basically: If you want to use LVM anyway, you can create a new physical volume, then add it to the volume group present in your system (VolGroup), create a logical volume and then use it the same way explained above:
Do you need to create logical volume to Mount SDB?
I think that what you’re asking for is to know if you need to create a logical volume in order to use the device /dev/sdb. If that’s the question, no, you don’t need to use LVM at all. You can directly create a file system on /dev/sdb and then mount it in your desired directory. Basically:
How to increase the size of the LVM partition?
1 Unmount the filesystem (if its root volume which requires booting into a Live CD to complete the work) 2 Use fsck command to check the filesystem before resizing it. 3 Resize the filesystem to 800MB before reducing the LV size 4 Reduce the size of the logical Volume 800MB. 5 Mount the filesystem
How to manage disk space with LVM-Linux.com?
Run the command mkfs.ext3 /dev/home2/downloads as the root user to format your logical volume with an Ext3 filesystem. Next create a folder in the home directory with the mkdir /home/downloads command and mount your logical volume with the command mount -t ext3 /dev/home2/downloads /home/downloads.
Can you reclaim hard drive space with LVM?
Reclaiming hard-drive space with LVM just scratches the surface of LVM capabilities. Most people, especially on the desktop, probably don’t need the more advanced features. However, LVM is there when the need arises, though it can get a bit complex to implement. BTRFS is the default filesystem, without LVM, starting with Fedora 33.
How does a LVM volume work in Fedora?
Physical volumes add available free space to the volume group. A typical Fedora install has one formatted boot partition, and the rest of the drive is a partition configured as an LVM physical volume. Out of this pool of available space, the volume group allocates one or more logical volumes.