How To Install lvm2 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lvm2
on CentOS 7.
What is lvm2
LVM2 includes all of the support for handling read/write operations on physical volumes (hard disks, RAID-Systems, magneto optical, etc., multiple devices (MD), see mdadm(8) or even loop devices, see losetup(8)), creating volume groups (kind of virtual disks) from one or more physical volumes and creating one or more logical volumes (kind of logical partitions) in volume groups.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install lvm2
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lvm2.
Install lvm2 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install lvm2
using yum
by running the following command:
Install lvm2 on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install lvm2
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall lvm2 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the lvm2
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lvm2
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.