Following on from the discussion in Resize LXD container How does lxc interact with storage volumes? Is it linked against some OS libraries that expose LVM functionality? Is it statically linked against something that was present on the build-box? Does it do system-calls under the hood? A quick s…

Yes, and the LVM tools are bundled inside the snap package rather than using the ones installed on the host. However you can use sudo snap set lxd lvm.external=true and sudo systemctl reload snap.lxd.daemon to get LXD to use the host’s LVM tools (and config files).

How does LXC interact with e.g. lvm?

LXD

tomp (Thomas Parrott) November 4, 2021, 9:23am 7

You may have already seen it, but there is some additional info on managing the LXD snap here which may help: