How to Safely Reduce the Size of a Logical Volume
Do not attempt to shrink a volume if the partition is mounted! Always unmount first! If it is the root volume you need to reduce in size, use a Live DVD/USB instead. You should also take a backup first too 😉 So here we can see I have one Physical Volume, /dev/md0, attached to my one volume group, RAIDVG. [andy@home-pc ~]$ sudo pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/md0 RAIDVG lvm2 a– 1.91t 0 We can also see there is zero space left on the volume group. You can use sudo pvdisplay to see a more detailed output. As […]