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How To Shrink An LVM Volume
Article By tilisha

The following steps will show you how to shrink an LVM volume. In this example, we will be shrinking volume VolGroup00-LogVol00 down to 20GB.
Please Note: This can and will cause data loss if performed improperly or on a volume that you attempt to shrink below the current volume usage. With that said, the steps are as follows:
umount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 20G lvreduce -L 20G /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
The process is similar when expanding a logical volume except the lvextend command is used in place of lvreduce.
Tags: lvm, shrink, Shrink LVM, VolGroup00, Volume
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