<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Common Tasks</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="LVM HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Upgrading to LVM 1.0.8 with an LVM root partition and initrd" HREF="upgradetolvmroot.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Initializing disks or disk partitions" HREF="initdisks.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="chapter" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >LVM HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="upgradetolvmroot.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="initdisks.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="chapter" ><H1 ><A NAME="commontask" ></A >Chapter 11. Common Tasks</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >11.1. <A HREF="initdisks.html" >Initializing disks or disk partitions</A ></DT ><DT >11.2. <A HREF="createvgs.html" >Creating a volume group</A ></DT ><DT >11.3. <A HREF="activatevgs.html" >Activating a volume group</A ></DT ><DT >11.4. <A HREF="removevgs.html" >Removing a volume group</A ></DT ><DT >11.5. <A HREF="addpvstovg.html" >Adding physical volumes to a volume group</A ></DT ><DT >11.6. <A HREF="removepvsfromvg.html" >Removing physical volumes from a volume group</A ></DT ><DT >11.7. <A HREF="createlv.html" >Creating a logical volume</A ></DT ><DT >11.8. <A HREF="removelv.html" >Removing a logical volume</A ></DT ><DT >11.9. <A HREF="extendlv.html" >Extending a logical volume</A ></DT ><DT >11.10. <A HREF="reducelv.html" >Reducing a logical volume</A ></DT ><DT >11.11. <A HREF="migrateoffpv.html" >Migrating data off of a physical volume</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><P > The following sections outline some common administrative tasks for an LVM system. <EM >This is no substitute for reading the man pages.</EM > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="upgradetolvmroot.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="initdisks.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Upgrading to LVM 1.0.8 with an LVM root partition and initrd</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Initializing disks or disk partitions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >