+[[storage_lvmthin]]
LVM thin Backend
----------------
+ifdef::wiki[]
+:pve-toplevel:
+:title: Storage: LVM Thin
+endif::wiki[]
Storage pool type: `lvmthin`
called thin-provisioning, because volumes can be much larger than
physically available space.
-You can use the normal LVM command line tools to manage and create LVM
-thin pools (see 'man lvmthin' for details). Assuming you already have
+You can use the normal LVM command-line tools to manage and create LVM
+thin pools (see `man lvmthin` for details). Assuming you already have
a LVM volume group called `pve`, the following commands create a new
LVM thin pool (size 100G) called `data`:
The name of the LVM thin pool.
-.Configuration Example ('/etc/pve/storage.cfg')
+.Configuration Example (`/etc/pve/storage.cfg`)
----
lvmthin: local-lvm
thinpool data
# pvesm lvmthinscan pve
+ifdef::wiki[]
+
+See Also
+~~~~~~~~
+
+* link:/wiki/Storage[Storage]
+
+endif::wiki[]