Logical Volume Manager (Linux)

Logical Volume Manager
Original author(s)Heinz Mauelshagen
Stable release
2.03.32  / 5 May 2025 (5 May 2025)
Repositorysourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git
Written inC
Operating systemLinux, NetBSD
LicenseGPLv2
Websitesourceware.org/lvm2/

In Linux, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a device mapper framework that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel. Most modern Linux distributions are LVM-aware to the point of being able to have their root file systems on a logical volume.

Heinz Mauelshagen wrote the original LVM code in 1998, when he was working at Sistina Software, taking its primary design guidelines from the HP-UX's volume manager.

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