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LVM Logical Volumes

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The use of logical volumes is similar to the use of partitions and is accomplished with the same standard commands (mkfs, mount, fsck, df, ...)

LVM Volume Groups

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A volume group (vg) is an abstraction layer between block devices and logical volumes. The commands used to manage a volume group start with vg

LVM Physical Volumes

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A physical volume (pv) is any block device (a disk, a partition, a RAID device, an iSCSI device, etc.)