community.general.lvol module – Configure LVM logical volumes

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 5.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.lvol.

Synopsis

  • This module creates, removes or resizes logical volumes.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

active

boolean

Whether the volume is active and visible to the host.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

force

boolean

Shrink or remove operations of volumes requires this switch. Ensures that that filesystems get never corrupted/destroyed by mistake.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

lv

string

The name of the logical volume.

opts

string

Free-form options to be passed to the lvcreate command.

pvs

string

Comma separated list of physical volumes (e.g. /dev/sda,/dev/sdb).

resizefs

boolean

Resize the underlying filesystem together with the logical volume.

Supported for ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs and XFS filesystems. Attempts to resize other filesystem types will fail.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

shrink

boolean

Shrink if current size is higher than size requested.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

size

string

The size of the logical volume, according to lvcreate(8) –size, by default in megabytes or optionally with one of [bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE] units; or according to lvcreate(8) –extents as a percentage of [VG|PVS|FREE]; Float values must begin with a digit.

When resizing, apart from specifying an absolute size you may, according to lvextend(8)|lvreduce(8) --size, specify the amount to extend the logical volume with the prefix + or the amount to reduce the logical volume by with prefix -.

Resizing using + or - was not supported prior to community.general 3.0.0.

Please note that when using + or -, the module is not idempotent.

snapshot

string

The name of the snapshot volume

state

string

Control if the logical volume exists. If present and the volume does not already exist then the size option is required.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

thinpool

string

The thin pool volume name. When you want to create a thin provisioned volume, specify a thin pool volume name.

vg

string / required

The volume group this logical volume is part of.

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
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: 512

- name: Create a logical volume of 512m with disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: 512
    pvs: /dev/sda,/dev/sdb

- name: Create cache pool logical volume
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: lvcache
    size: 512m
    opts: --type cache-pool

- name: Create a logical volume of 512g.
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: 512g

- name: Create a logical volume the size of all remaining space in the volume group
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: 100%FREE

- name: Create a logical volume with special options
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: 512g
    opts: -r 16

- name: Extend the logical volume to 1024m.
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: 1024

- name: Extend the logical volume to consume all remaining space in the volume group
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: +100%FREE

- name: Extend the logical volume by given space
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: +512M

- name: Extend the logical volume to take all remaining space of the PVs and resize the underlying filesystem
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: 100%PVS
    resizefs: true

- name: Resize the logical volume to % of VG
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: 80%VG
    force: true

- name: Reduce the logical volume to 512m
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: 512
    force: true

- name: Reduce the logical volume by given space
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: -512M
    force: true

- name: Set the logical volume to 512m and do not try to shrink if size is lower than current one
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: 512
    shrink: false

- name: Remove the logical volume.
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    state: absent
    force: true

- name: Create a snapshot volume of the test logical volume.
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    snapshot: snap1
    size: 100m

- name: Deactivate a logical volume
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    active: false

- name: Create a deactivated logical volume
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    size: 512g
    active: false

- name: Create a thin pool of 512g
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    thinpool: testpool
    size: 512g

- name: Create a thin volume of 128g
  community.general.lvol:
    vg: firefly
    lv: test
    thinpool: testpool
    size: 128g

Authors

  • Jeroen Hoekx (@jhoekx)

  • Alexander Bulimov (@abulimov)

  • Raoul Baudach (@unkaputtbar112)

  • Ziga Kern (@zigaSRC)