Creating a Proxmox File-system

Creating a Physical Volume for the Logical Volume

pvcreate” initializes the specified physical volume for later use by the Logical Volume Manager (LVM).

Command:

pvcreate /dev/mapper/mpathX

Creating a Volume Group

Command:

vgcreate vol_grp<No> /dev/mapper/mpathX

Displaying a Volume Group

Command:

vgscan

Output:

Adding LVM at the Datacenter Level

To create a new LVM storage, access the PVE GUI to the datacenter level, then select Storage and enter Add.

Finding out the UUID and the Partition Type

The blkid command is used to query information from the connected storage devices and their partitions.

Command:

blkid /dev/mapper/mpath*

Output: