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You will also find that physical volumes may be created on meta-disks and meta-disks can be created from
logical volumes. This will allow a

Add or Remove Physical Volumes

This option is used to define a block device as a physical volume for use with LVM. When selecting this
option a list of potential physical volume devices as well as those currently defined is displayed:

This list will only contain devices, such as disks, partitions or meta-disks, that do not already have other
data assigned to them. Those indicated with => are currently physical volumes. You may select any line to
either define or un-define this as a physical volume. The Type/(VG) column will display either the type of
device (it not currently a physical volume), or the volume group name (or none) the physical volume
currently is assigned to.

When finished with your selections, press F3 or ESC to return to the

LVM Settings Menu

.

Add or Change Volume Groups

Use this option to change the attributes of a volume group, delete a volume group or to add a new volume
group. When selecting this option, a screen similar to the following will first appear:

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