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Update vgcreate man page.
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Version 2.01.00 - 17th January 2005
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Version 2.01.00 - 17th January 2005
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.SH OPTIONS
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.SH OPTIONS
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See \fBlvm\fP for common options.
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See \fBlvm\fP for common options.
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.TP
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.TP
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.BR \-A ", " \-\-autobackup " {" y | n }
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Controls automatic backup of VG metadata after the change (see
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.BR vgcfgbackup (8)).
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Default is yes.
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.TP
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.BR \-l ", " \-\-maxlogicalvolumes " " \fIMaxLogicalVolumes\fR
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.BR \-l ", " \-\-maxlogicalvolumes " " \fIMaxLogicalVolumes\fR
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Sets the maximum possible logical volume count.
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Sets the maximum number of logical volumes allowed in this
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More logical volumes can't be created in this volume group.
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volume group.
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Absolute maximum is 256.
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The setting can be changed with \fBvgchange\fP.
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For volume groups with metadata in lvm1 format, the limit
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and default value is 255.
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If the metadata uses lvm2 format, the default value is 0
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which removes this restriction: there is then no limit.
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.TP
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.TP
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.BR \-p ", " \-\-maxphysicalvolumes " " \fIMaxPhysicalVolumes\fR
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.BR \-p ", " \-\-maxphysicalvolumes " " \fIMaxPhysicalVolumes\fR
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Sets the maximum possible physical volume count.
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Sets the maximum number of physical volumes that can belong
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More physical volumes can't be included in this volume group.
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to this volume group.
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Absolute maximum is 256.
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The setting can be changed with \fBvgchange\fP.
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For volume groups with metadata in lvm1 format, the limit
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and default value is 255.
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If the metadata uses lvm2 format, the default value is 0
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which removes this restriction: there is then no limit.
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If you have a large number of physical volumes in
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a volume group with metadata in lvm2 format,
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for tool performance reasons, you should consider
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some use of \fB--metadatacopies 0\fP
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as described in \fBpvcreate(8)\fP.
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.TP
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.BR \-s ", " \-\-physicalextentsize " " \fIPhysicalExtentSize\fR[\fBkKmMgGtT\fR]
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.BR \-s ", " \-\-physicalextentsize " " \fIPhysicalExtentSize\fR[\fBkKmMgGtT\fR]
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Sets the physical extent size on physical volumes of this volume group.
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Sets the physical extent size on physical volumes of this volume group.
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A size suffix (k for kilobytes up to t for terabytes) is optional, megabytes
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A size suffix (k for kilobytes up to t for terabytes) is optional, megabytes
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is the default if no suffix is present. Values can be from 8 KB to 16 GB in
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is the default if no suffix is present. Values can be from 8 KB to 16 GB in
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powers of 2. The default of 4 MB causes maximum LV sizes of ~256GB because as
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powers of 2. The default is 4 MB.
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many as ~64k extents are supported per LV. In case larger maximum LV sizes are
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Once this value has been set, it is difficult to change it without recreating
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needed (later), you need to set the PE size to a larger value as well. Later
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the volume group which would involve backing up and restoring data on any
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changes of the PE size in an existing VG are not supported.
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logical volumes.
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If the volume group metadata uses lvm1 format, there is a limit of 65534
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extents in each logical volume, so the default of 4 MB leads to a maximum
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logical volume size of around 256GB.
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If the volume group metadata uses lvm2 format there is no such restriction,
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although having a large number of extents will slow down
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the tools but have no impact on I/O performance to the logical volume.
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The 2.4 kernel has a limitation of 2TB per block device.
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.SH EXAMPLES
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.SH EXAMPLES
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To create a volume group named
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To create a volume group named
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.B test_vg
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.B test_vg
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\ vgcreate test_vg /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1
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\ vgcreate test_vg /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1
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.fi
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.fi
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To limit kernel memory usage, there is a limit of 65536 physical extents
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(PE) per logical volume, so the PE size determines the maximum logical volume
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size. The default PE size of 4MB limits a single logical volume to 256GB (see
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the -s option to raise that limit).
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There is also (as of Linux 2.4) a kernel limitation of 2TB per block device.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR lvm (8),
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.BR lvm (8),
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.BR pvdisplay (8),
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.BR pvdisplay (8),
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