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To work with lvm make sure lvm packages are installed on your system. If you are adding an lvm partition manually follow the steps below. Make sure there's enough unallocated space. Figure out the extent size, lets say 8M chunks and we'll go for 100 of these at least. Extents are the smallest divisible units in a lvm file system.
*** Create LVM volume group and a logical volume from a normal partition ***
lsblk # identify device and partition
fdisk /dev/sda # '/dev/sda' is the device we'll be working with
# use n flag to create new partition
# use t flag to designate the new partition as 'lvm'
# use w to sync all changes to disk
vgcreate -s 8M volume_name /dev/sda6 # -s specifies the extent size of 8M
lvcreate -n scratch -l 100 /dev/volume_name # -n for name, -l Num of Extents
mkfs.ext4 /dev/volume_name/scratch # formats the logical volume to ext4
After volume is created, it needs to be mounted. You can simply create
a mountpoint mkdir /scratch or wherever, then edit /etc/fstab to append
the volume likes so:
/dev/volume_name/scratch /scratch ext4 defaults 0 0
If there any doubts, man vgcreate or man lvcreate are super helpful. The beauty of lvm is its flexibility to resize beyond the restrictions of one or many physical volumes physical volumes -> volume group -> logical volumes
We can use lvextend to add space to logical volume like so:
lvextend -r -L +1G /dev/volume_name/scratch
lvresize adds more flexibility allowing you to shrink the volume.