documentation/docs/void-desktop-setup/installation/provisioning-with-lvm.md

Provisioning with LVM

First off the drive should be partitioned, possibly with fdisk or cfdisk. It should have atleast two partitions with one EFI System Partition and one Linux filesystem partition.

It should look something like this:

Number of partition	Size	Type
1	1 to 2 GB or more	EFI System
2	Rest of the drive	Linux filesystem

Then to create the filesystem of the efi partition.

# mkfs.fat -F 32 -n efi /dev/<disk1>

And the encrypted filesystem of the root partition.

# cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/<disk2> --type luks2 --label luks
# cryptsetup open --type luks /dev/<disk2> lv0

Now to create a new LVM volume group:

# vgcreate lv0 /dev/mapper/lv0

To create partitions inside the volume group:

# lvcreate --name root -L 64G lv0
# lvcreate --name home -l 100%FREE lv0

To create the filesystems on the logical partitions:

# mkfs.ext4 -L root /dev/mapper/lv0-root
# mkfs.ext4 -L home /dev/mapper/lv0-home

Other filesystems can also be used but ext4 is the standard for most linux distrobutions. Other sizes for the partitions can also be used depending on the needs of the user.