pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo apt-get install lvm2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: lvm2 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 578 kB of archives. ................................................................ Setting up lvm2 (2.02.95-8+rpi1) ... Setting up LVM Volume Groups... No volume groups found done. update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo pvcreate /dev/mmcblk0p3 Writing physical volume data to disk "/dev/mmcblk0p3" Physical volume "/dev/mmcblk0p3" successfully created pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo vgcreate sysadmVG /dev/mmcblk0p3 Volume group "sysadmVG" successfully created pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo lvcreate --size=256M --name=aLV sysadmVG Logical volume "aLV" created pi@raspberrypi:~$ ls -l /dev/sysadmVG/aLV lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 31 10:27 /dev/sysadmVG/aLV -> ../dm-0 pi@raspberrypi:~$ ls -lL /dev/sysadmVG/aLV brw-rw---T 1 root disk 254, 0 Mar 31 10:27 /dev/sysadmVG/aLV pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sysadmVG/aLV mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) Discarding device blocks: done Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 65536 inodes, 262144 blocks 13107 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 Maximum filesystem blocks=67371008 32 block groups 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 2048 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (8192 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done pi@raspberrypi:~$ mkdir /tmp/a pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo mount /dev/sysadmVG/aLV /tmp/a pi@raspberrypi:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 8191672 2643492 5165160 34% / /dev/root 8191672 2643492 5165160 34% / devtmpfs 470368 0 470368 0% /dev tmpfs 94936 220 94716 1% /run tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs 189860 0 189860 0% /run/shm /dev/mmcblk0p1 57288 14720 42568 26% /boot /dev/mapper/sysadmVG-aLV 245679 2062 226414 1% /tmp/a pi@raspberrypi:~$ ls /tmp/a lost+found pi@raspberrypi:~$ exit