lvol – Configure LVM logical volumes¶
Parameters¶
Notes¶
Note
- You must specify lv (when managing the state of logical volumes) or thinpool (when managing a thin provisioned volume).
Examples¶
- name: Create a logical volume of 512m
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: 512
- name: Create a logical volume of 512m with disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: 512
pvs: /dev/sda,/dev/sdb
- name: Create cache pool logical volume
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: lvcache
size: 512m
opts: --type cache-pool
- name: Create a logical volume of 512g.
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: 512g
- name: Create a logical volume the size of all remaining space in the volume group
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: 100%FREE
- name: Create a logical volume with special options
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: 512g
opts: -r 16
- name: Extend the logical volume to 1024m.
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: 1024
- name: Extend the logical volume to consume all remaining space in the volume group
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: +100%FREE
- name: Extend the logical volume to take all remaining space of the PVs and resize the underlying filesystem
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: 100%PVS
resizefs: true
- name: Resize the logical volume to % of VG
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: 80%VG
force: yes
- name: Reduce the logical volume to 512m
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: 512
force: yes
- name: Set the logical volume to 512m and do not try to shrink if size is lower than current one
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: 512
shrink: no
- name: Remove the logical volume.
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
state: absent
force: yes
- name: Create a snapshot volume of the test logical volume.
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
snapshot: snap1
size: 100m
- name: Deactivate a logical volume
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
active: false
- name: Create a deactivated logical volume
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
size: 512g
active: false
- name: Create a thin pool of 512g
lvol:
vg: firefly
thinpool: testpool
size: 512g
- name: Create a thin volume of 128g
lvol:
vg: firefly
lv: test
thinpool: testpool
size: 128g
Status¶
- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]
Authors¶
- Jeroen Hoekx (@jhoekx)
- Alexander Bulimov (@abulimov)
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