Logical Volume Manager (Linux)

Logical Volume Manager
Original author(s)Heinz Mauelshagen[1]
Stable release
2.03.21[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 21 April 2023; 19 months ago (21 April 2023)
Repositorysourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git
Written inC
Operating systemLinux, NetBSD
LicenseGPLv2
Websitesourceware.org/lvm2/

In Linux, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a device mapper framework that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel. Most modern Linux distributions are LVM-aware to the point of being able to have their root file systems on a logical volume.[3][4][5]

Heinz Mauelshagen wrote the original LVM code in 1998, when he was working at Sistina Software, taking its primary design guidelines from the HP-UX's volume manager.[1]

  1. ^ a b "LVM README". 2003-11-17. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  2. ^ "[lvm-devel] v2_03_21 annotated tag has been created". 21 April 2023. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  3. ^ "7.1.2 LVM Configuration with YaST". SUSE. 12 July 2011. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
  4. ^ "HowTo: Set up Ubuntu Desktop with LVM Partitions". Ubuntu. 1 June 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
  5. ^ "9.15.4 Create LVM Logical Volume". Red Hat. 8 October 2014. Retrieved 2015-05-22.