Logical Volume Manager (Linux)

Logical Volume Manager
Original authorHeinz Mauelshagen
Stable release
2.03.38  / 15 December 2025 (15 December 2025)
Written inC
Operating systemLinux, NetBSD
LicenseGPLv2
Websitesourceware.org/lvm2/
Repositorysourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git

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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