204.3 - Logical Volume Manager

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be able to create and remove logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes. This objective includes snapshots and resizing logical volumes.

Key Knowledge Areas:

Tools in the LVM suite

Resizing, renaming, creating, and removing logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes

Creating and maintaining snapshots

Activating volume groups

Terms and Utilities:

/sbin/pv*

/sbin/lv*

/sbin/vg*

mount

/dev/mapper/

lvm.conf