How would you reduce or shrink the size of LVM partition?

Posted on September 13, 2012December 13, 2018 by Ron Jagannathan

Answer:

Unmount the filesystem using unmount command,
Use resize2fs command , e.g resiz2fs /dev/mapper/myvg-mylv 10G
Now use the lvreduce command as lvreduce -L 10G /dev/mapper/myvg-mylv

The above Command will shrink the size LVM partition and fixes the filesystem size to 10GB.Most in-depth, industry-led curriculum in linux.

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