It is a command using which we can do low level logical volume management. So basically dmsetup is used to manage logical devices that use the device-mapper driver. The first argument to dmsetup is a command. The second argument is the logical device name or uuid. The package which provides dmsetup command can be found out using: # yum whatprovices /sbin/dmsetup ... 7:device-mapper-1.02.158-2.el7_7.2.x86_64 : Device mapper utility Repo : @updates Matched from: Filename : … [Read more...] about Examples of using dmsetup command in Linux