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All right, let's investigate the storage topology.

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A lot of storage going on.

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It looks as if NVMe 0 and 2 is the best one to use.

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So I am going to do an fdisk on dev NVMe 0 and 2

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to create two new partitions.

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Let me use Control-L to put the output

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on the top of the screen.

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Using N to create partition number 5.

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The lab is not asking for a specific size,

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so I'm making it a 1G partition.

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Using N to create partition number 6.

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Same story, plus 1G.

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This is going to be used for LVM,

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so we should not forget to set the partition type.

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For partition number 6, the alias that we can use is LVM.

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And likewise, T for partition number 5,

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and the alias is LVM.

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And now a quick P to verify what we have done.

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And as you can see, we have partition 5 and partition 6.

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Looking good.

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So W, and that will write it.

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Quick LSBOK to verify that partitions 5 and 6 show up

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as expected, and they do.

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Right, next we need to create an LVM volume group.

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I'm going to use VGcreate, calling it VGLab,

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and putting in dev NVMe0 N2P5, as well as dev NVMe0 N2P6.

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Hey, hold on.

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Don't we have to create the physical volumes first?

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Yes, that's what I explained, because I

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want you to be aware of every single step.

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But the LVM utilities in general are quite smart.

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And that means even if you don't specifically

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create the physical volume, VGcreate

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will find the partitions, will notice, hey,

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this is not a physical volume yet,

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and it will write the physical volume

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metadata to the partition, with the result

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that the volume group is successfully created.

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That makes it a bit easier, isn't it?

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Then we need to create a logical volume, so LVCreate.

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And how about the 75% of available disk space?

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Well, you would use minus L, lowercase L that is, 75% free.

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Minus N, because we want to give it a name, LVLab in VGLab.

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And now I want to do a quick LVS to verify

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that this worked out all right.

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And what do we see?

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We see that LVLab has a size of 1.5 gigs,

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and that is exactly what we needed.

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So mkfs.ext4 on dev VGLab LVLab to create an ext4 file system.

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And that is all that was required in this lab.