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: LVM Terminology:

PV (Physical Volume)

PV refers to disk partition, whole disk, or device logically containing the same function as disk partition (such as RAID). Being a fundamental storage logical block of LVM, it includes managing parameters related to LVM in contrast with basic physical storage media (partition, disk, etc.).


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