is short for Logical Volume Manager and allows for the creation of groups of disks
or various partitions that can be assembled into a single or you can create multiple file systems.
LVM
You can use an LVM volume for nearly any mount point
except for boot
because GRUB cannot read LVM metadata
lists out the physical volumes in an LVM group
pvs
lists out volume groups within LVM group
vgs
lists out logical volumes within an LVM group
lvs