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It is possible to tell lvcreate to use all free space inside a volume group. This is done through the  option which selects the amount of extents rather than a (human readable) size. Logical volumes are split into logical extents which are data chunks inside a volume group. All extents in a volume group have the same size. With the  option lvcreate can be asked to allocate all free extents: