How To Install lvresize on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install lvm2

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install lvm2

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is lvresize and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install lvresize on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install lvresize on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install lvresize using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lvm2

Install lvresize on CentOS 8 using yum

Because lvresize is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install lvresize package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lvm2

How to upgrade (update) a single package lvresize using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like lvresize in this example you should use the following command:

yum update lvm2

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade lvm2

How to Upgrade lvresize on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update lvm2

How To remove lvresize from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the lvresize package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove lvm2

Extra info and code examples

operations on physical volumes (hard disks, RAID-Systems, magneto optical, etc., multiple devices (MD), see mdadm(8) or even loop devices, see losetup(8)), creating volume groups (kind of virtual disks) from one or more physical volumes and creating one or more logical volumes (kind of logical partitions) in volume groups.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install lvresize using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the lvresize from CentOS 8.

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