How to setup thin Provisioned Logical Volumes in CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

Posted by linuxtechi on Jul 16, 2016 11:11 PM EDT
www.linuxtechi.com; By Pradeep Kumar
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Thin Provisioning allows us to create the larger logical volumes than the available disk space. To use the thin provisioning we have to create a thin pool from volume group and then we can create logical volumes from that thin pool.

LVM (Logical Volume Management) is a good way to use the disk space on the server more efficiently. One of the benefits of LVM is that we can take the snapshots of lvm based partitions and can create thinly provisioned logical volumes.

Thin Provisioning allows us to create the larger logical volumes than the available disk space. To use the thin provisioning we have to create a thin pool from volume group and then we can create logical volumes from that thin pool.

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