Appendix B. The LVM Configuration Files

Appendix B. The LVM Configuration Files

Appendix B. The LVM Configuration Files

LVM supports multiple configuration files. At system startup, the lvm.conf configuration file is loaded from the directory specified by the environment variable LVM_SYSTEM_DIR, which is set to /etc/lvm by default.

The lvm.conf file can specify additional configuration files to load. Settings in later files override settings from earlier ones. To display the settings in use after loading all the configuration files, execute the lvm dumpconfig command.

For information on loading additional configuration files, see Section C.2, “Host Tags”.