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Chapter 8: Creating and Administering lv Logical Volumes


This chapter describes the procedures for creating and administering lv logical volumes. Support for lv logical volumes will be removed from IRIX following IRIX Release 6.2. The procedure for converting from lv logical volumes to XLV logical volumes is described in the section "Converting lv Logical Volumes to XLV Logical Volumes" in Chapter 7.

The major sections in this chapter are:


Creating Entries in the /etc/lvtab File
Creating New Logical Volume With mklv
Checking Logical Volumes With lvck
Creating a Logical Volume and a Filesystem on Newly Added Disks
Increasing the Size of a Logical Volume
Shrinking a Logical Volume

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