Volume management commands

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Before you begin

  • Ensure that the libvirt daemon is running on the host.

Procedure

  • Creating, modifying, and deleting volumes:
    Functionality Command
    Create a volume for a storage pool from a volume configuration-XML file vol-create
    Remove a volume from a storage pool vol-delete

    Other useful commands to create volumes are: vol-create-as, vol-create-from, or vol-clone.

  • Monitoring volumes:
    Functionality Command
    Display a list of the volumes of a storage pool vol-list
    Display the current libvirt-internal configuration of a storage volume vol-dumpxml
    Display information about a defined volume vol-info
    Display the key of a volume from its name or path vol-key
    Display the name of a volume from its key or path vol-name
    Display the path of a volume from its name or key vol-path
    Display the storage pool name or UUID which hosts the volume vol-pool