lvm2: Logical Volume Management, Version 2 lvm2: LVM2 refers to a new userspace toolset that provide lvm2: logical volume management facilities on linux. It is lvm2: reasonably backwards-compatible with the original LVM toolset. lvm2: lvm2: To use LVM2 you need 3 things: device-mapper in your kernel, lvm2: the userspace device-mapper support library (libdevmapper) lvm2: and the userspace LVM2 tools lvm2: lvm2: lvm2: