How to Extend/Reduce LVM’s (Logical Volume Management) in Linux – Part II

Previously we have seen how to create a flexible disk storage using LVM. Here, we are going to see how to extend volume group, extend and reduce a logical volume. Here we can reduce or extend the partitions in Logical volume management (LVM) also called as flexible volume file-system.

Extend/Reduce LVMs in Linux
Extend/Reduce LVMs in Linux

Requirements

  1. Create Flexible Disk Storage with LVM – Part I
When do we need to reduce volume?

May be we need to create a separate partition for any other use or we need to expand the size of any low space partition, if so we can reduce the large size partition and we can expand the low space partition very easily by the following simple easy steps.

My Server Setup – Requirements
  1. Operating System – CentOS 6.5 with LVM Installation
  2. Server IP – 192.168.0.200

How to Extend Volume Group and Reduce Logical Volume

Logical Volume Extending

Currently, we have One PV, VG and 2 LV. Let’s list them one by one using following commands.

# pvs
# vgs
# lvs
Logical Volume Extending
Logical Volume Extending

There are no free space available in Physical Volume and Volume group. So, now we can’t extend the lvm size, for extending we need to add one physical volume (PV), and then we have to extend the volume group by extending the vg. We will get enough space to extend the Logical volume size. So first we are going to add one physical volume.

For adding a new PV we have to use fdisk to create the LVM partition.

# fdisk -cu /dev/sda
  1. To Create new partition Press n.
  2. Choose primary partition use p.
  3. Choose which number of partition to be selected to create the primary partition.
  4. Press 1 if any other disk available.
  5. Change the type using t.
  6. Type 8e to change the partition type to Linux LVM.
  7. Use p to print the create partition ( here we have not used the option).
  8. Press w to write the changes.

Restart the system once completed.

Create LVM Partition
Create LVM Partition

List and check the partition we have created using fdisk.

# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Verify LVM Partition
Verify LVM Partition

Next, create new PV (Physical Volume) using following command.

# pvcreate /dev/sda1

Verify the pv using below command.

# pvs
Create Physical Volume
Create Physical Volume

Extending Volume Group

Add this pv to vg_tecmint vg to extend the size of a volume group to get more space for expanding lv.

# vgextend vg_tecmint /dev/sda1

Let us check the size of a Volume Group now using.

# vgs
Extend Volume Group
Extend Volume Group

We can even see which PV are used to create particular Volume group using.

# pvscan
Check Volume Group
Check Volume Group

Here, we can see which Volume groups are under Which Physical Volumes. We have just added one pv and its totally free. Let us see the size of each logical volume we have currently before expanding it.

Check All Logical Volume
Check All Logical Volume
  1. LogVol00 defined for Swap.
  2. LogVol01 defined for /.
  3. Now we have 16.50 GB size for / (root).
  4. Currently there are 4226 Physical Extend (PE) available.

Now we are going to expand the / partition LogVol01. After expanding we can list out the size as above for confirmation. We can extend using GB or PE as I have explained it in LVM PART-I, here I’m using PE to extend.

For getting the available Physical Extend size run.

# vgdisplay
Check Available Physical Size
Check Available Physical Size

There are 4607 free PE available = 18GB Free space available. So we can expand our logical volume up-to 18GB more. Let us use the PE size to extend.

# lvextend -l +4607 /dev/vg_tecmint/LogVol01

Use + to add the more space. After Extending, we need to re-size the file-system using.

# resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint/LogVol01
Expand Logical Volume
Expand Logical Volume
  1. Command used to extend the logical volume using Physical extends.
  2. Here we can see it is extended to 34GB from 16.51GB.
  3. Re-size the file system, If the file-system is mounted and currently under use.
  4. For extending Logical volumes we don’t need to unmount the file-system.

Now let’s see the size of re-sized logical volume using.

# lvdisplay
Resize Logical Volume
Resize Logical Volume
  1. LogVol01 defined for / extended volume.
  2. After extending there is 34.50GB from 16.50GB.
  3. Current extends, Before extending there was 4226, we have added 4607 extends to expand so totally there are 8833.

Now if we check the vg available Free PE it will be 0.

# vgdisplay

See the result of extending.

# pvs
# vgs
# lvs
Verify Resize Partition
Verify Resize Partition
  1. New Physical Volume added.
  2. Volume group vg_tecmint extended from 17.51GB to 35.50GB.
  3. Logical volume LogVol01 extended from 16.51GB to 34.50GB.

Here we have completed the process of extending volume group and logical volumes. Let us move towards some interesting part in Logical volume management.

Reducing Logical Volume (LVM)

Here we are going to see how to reduce the Logical Volumes. Everyone say its critical and may end up with disaster while we reduce the lvm. Reducing lvm is really interesting than any other part in Logical volume management.

  1. Before starting, it is always good to backup the data, so that it will not be a headache if something goes wrong.
  2. To Reduce a logical volume there are 5 steps needed to be done very carefully.
  3. While extending a volume we can extend it while the volume under mount status (online), but for reduce we must need to unmount the file system before reducing.

Let’s wee what are the 5 steps below.

  1. unmount the file system for reducing.
  2. Check the file system after unmount.
  3. Reduce the file system.
  4. Reduce the Logical Volume size than Current size.
  5. Recheck the file system for error.
  6. Remount the file-system back to stage.

For demonstration, I have created separate volume group and logical volume. Here, I’m going to reduce the logical volume tecmint_reduce_test. Now its 18GB in size. We need to reduce it to 10GB without data-loss. That means we need to reduce 8GB out of 18GB. Already there is 4GB data in the volume.

18GB ---> 10GB

While reducing size, we need to reduce only 8GB so it will roundup to 10GB after the reduce.

# lvs
Reduce Logical Volume
Reduce Logical Volume

Here we can see the file-system information.

# df -h
Check File System Size
Check File System Size
  1. The size of the Volume is 18GB.
  2. Already it used upto 3.9GB.
  3. Available Space is 13GB.

First unmount the mount point.

# umount -v /mnt/tecmint_reduce_test/
Unmount Parition
Unmount Parition

Then check for the file-system error using following command.

# e2fsck -ff /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test
Scan Parition for Errors
Scan Parition for Errors

Note: Must pass in every 5 steps of file-system check if not there might be some issue with your file-system.

Next, reduce the file-system.

# resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 10G
Reduce File System
Reduce File System

Reduce the Logical volume using GB size.

# lvreduce -L -8G /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test
Reduce Logical Partition
Reduce Logical Partition

To Reduce Logical volume using PE Size we need to Know the size of default PE size and total PE size of a Volume Group to put a small calculation for accurate Reduce size.

# lvdisplay vg_tecmint_extra

Here we need to do a little calculation to get the PE size of 10GB using bc command.

1024MB x 10GB = 10240MB or 10GB

10240MB / 4PE = 2048PE

Press CRTL+D to exit from BC.

Calculate PE Size
Calculate PE Size

Reduce the size using PE.

# lvreduce -l -2048 /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test
Reduce Size Using PE
Reduce Size Using PE

Re-size the file-system back, In this step if there is any error that means we have messed-up our file-system.

# resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test
Resize File System
Resize File System

Mount the file-system back to same point.

# mount /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test /mnt/tecmint_reduce_test/
Mount File System
Mount File System

Check the size of partition and files.

# lvdisplay vg_tecmint_extra

Here we can see the final result as the logical volume was reduced to 10GB size.

Verify Logical Volume Size
Verify Logical Volume Size

In this article, we have seen how to extend the volume group, logical volume and reduce the logical volume. In the next part (Part III), we will see how to take a Snapshot of logical volume and restore it to earlier stage.

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93 thoughts on “How to Extend/Reduce LVM’s (Logical Volume Management) in Linux – Part II”

  1. I have what I consider a big problem. I installed Ubuntu 22.04 and LVM during installation. I have 3 HDs before installing I moved all data to the 3rd drive, sdc.

    Now after installing it, I do not see the sdc. With gparted I can see the sdc and it is called sdc. It shows an area with data. MY DATA but I cannot see it in Nautilus.

    How to see it and move my data back to the /home/user/? The data was created on Ubuntu 23.04. I went down because of too many problems on 23.04. What can I do?

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  2. There is a typo:

    # resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 10GB 
    

    should be:

    # resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 10G
    
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  3. Nice post.

    I have a question related to that article above. can I reduce my multiple HDD were use by home partition? we have five HDD @2TB extend with lvm with xfs format in centos 7.

    So we need to resize the partition home from 10TB to 5TB. I need to remove two HDDs and make sure all data cant corrupt.

    can you advise me step by step. thanks

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  4. The actual command you can see 10G is used in the terminal screenshot.

    The author/editor needs to update in display information which may be due to a typing mistakes.

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  5. I have already expanded the /home by following the instructions above.

    [root@maxs ~]# lvs
      LV   VG     Attr       LSize  Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
      home centos -wi-ao---- 20.93g                                                 
      root centos -wi-ao---- 37.25g                                                 
      swap centos -wi-ao---- <3.73g                                                 
    

    However when I use the df command to verify the /home size, its size is still 953M.

    [root@maxs ~]# df -h /home
    Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/centos-home  953M  953M   88K 100% /home
    

    Hope you can help me.

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  6. resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 10GB

    Your command line is wrong. resize2fs takes size with a single character. It should be 10G and not 10GB.

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  7. Thank you! This took forever to figure out what I wanted to do. Super clear instructions, much better than ubuntu forums or StackOverflow LOL

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  8. You have to unmount /home first. This might not be possible if you are logged in. You can try to go to the console with CTRL-ALT-F1, log in as root. Stop the GUI. Depending on what Desktop you are running you have to google how to do that. After the GUI is stopped you should be able to unmount /home. Root does not use /home.

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  9. How to reduce lvm mapped to /home? When I use e2fsck, it returns the device is busy.

    [root@ydx-mf ~]# pvs
      PV             VG   Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
      /dev/nvme0n1p3 VG01 lvm2 a--  475.35g    0 
    [root@ydx-mf ~]# lvs
      LV   VG   Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
      home VG01 -wi-ao---- 397.96g                                                    
      root VG01 -wi-ao----  70.00g                                                    
      swap VG01 -wi-ao----   7.39g
    
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  10. I am getting following errors.

    [root@server ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
    
    Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
    Disk label type: dos
    Disk identifier: 0x000e2dce
    
       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sda1   *        2048     1026047      512000   83  Linux
    /dev/sda2         1026048  1953523711   976248832   8e  Linux LVM
    
    [root@server ~]# pvcreate /dev/sda2
      WARNING: Device for PV YNsfOB-W0GD-J6DV-y7JS-dv8J-3ScO-JtQw1d not found or rejected by a filter.
      Couldn't find device with uuid YNsfOB-W0GD-J6DV-y7JS-dv8J-3ScO-JtQw1d.
      Can't initialize physical volume "/dev/sda2" of volume group "centos" without -ff
      /dev/sda2: physical volume not initialized.
    
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  11. Hi,

    I have created one hard disk (sdc) and want to add in (sdb) hard disk how to add in command line in LVM please let me know.

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  12. It is worth mentioning if your partition is xfs then you will need to use ‘xfs_growfs‘.

    xfs seems popular for later releases of Centos.

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  13. All was going well until I ran Couldn’t find valid

    [root@localhost ~]# lvextend -l +20000 /dev/fedora/root
      Size of logical volume fedora/root changed from 15.00 GiB (3840 extents) to 93.12 GiB (23840 extents).
      Logical volume fedora/root successfully resized.
    
    
    
    [root@localhost ~]# resize2fs /dev/fedora/root
    resize2fs 1.44.3 (10-July-2018)
    resize2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/fedora/root
    

    Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

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  14. Hi Guys,

    I need to increase disk space on a centos 7 but when I do fdisk -cu /dev/sda I get the menu with options. If I do only fdisk /dev/sda I get a warning that fdisk GPT support is current new.

    Already added a new disk from the hypervisor to the virtual machine.

    Used the same method as described in the article but for Ubuntu.

    Any thoughts?

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  15. Hi,

    I have 2 questions any one please give me a answer:

    1. what is the difference between L and l (small) ?
    2. what is the difference between LVresize and LV extend ?

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    • @Krishna,

      1. what is the difference between L and l (small)?

      L = Can be used while MB, GB or TB in size
      l = Can be used while resizing or reducing with Physical extent in size (PE), (The default extent size of a single PE is 4 MB).

      2. what is the difference between LVresize and LV extent?

      lvresize = Take an example resizing from 10 GB to 20 GB using existing PEs from the Volume group.
      lvextend = Only used while adding a new device (/dev/sdc or /dev/sdd or whatever ) to existing volume group.

      Thanks & Regards,
      Bobin Lonston

      Reply
  16. I tried reducing the LV on a test system. Worked like breeze. To calculate the PE’s to remove I converted everything to real bytes. That is, PE size of 4MiB = 4 * 1024 * 1024. And the number of GB to remove was 1Gib = 1024 * 1024 * 2014 bytes.

    After resizefs, the space needed by the file system is specified in 4kiB blocks, so 4096 bytes each. If you want to calculate accurately without losing a GB here and there AND you want to be sure not to reduce the LV beyond the size of the file system, I’d recommend this.

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  17. I think the command `resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 10GB` should be `resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 10G` –> 10GB produces: invalid new size.

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  18. We can use lvextend and resize2fs same time with lvextend -r command.

    From the man page:

    -r|–resizefs – Resize underlying filesystem together with the LV using fsadm(8).

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  19. Hello Ravi,

    # resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 8GB
    

    but on the actual screen you showing:

    # resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 10G
    

    Still the article is live and you have not corrected. Please make the correction as its been followed by many techs.

    Regards
    Ramesh Das

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    • @Ramesh,

      We extremely sorry for trouble, we’ve corrected the command as suggested, if you still seeing same, clear your browser cache..

      Reply
  20. Great article.
    Just a little mistake you made. In reducing LVM you saying:

    # resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 8GB

    …but on the actual screen you showing:

    # resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 10G

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  21. Great article – so helpful! I was able to use this to extend my media server library filesystem in CentOS 6.8 with no issue whatsoever (after I spent 6 hours rebuilding my RAID array that is)

    Thanks for the help!

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  22. Excellent! This is exactly what I needed to resize my LV’s on my OpenMediaVault server. Made a how-to with reference to this page on the OMV forum. I hope it gets approved ;)

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    • @Michael,

      Yes, it’s possible to extend the size without adding new disks, but we should have enough space in VG.

      To extend the space for any logical volumes we don’t require any downtime, only we need downtime in the case of reducing disk space by unmounting.

      Thanks & Regards,
      Babin Lonston

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      • I know that you need space on VG. But what if I don’t have and I add space to the disk from vSphere or whatever virtualization product? Then it involves downtime to increase the disk space, right?

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        • Nope – it’s perfectly possible to increase available disk space on any file system without downtime.

          We did a CentOS and an RHEL box last week – one was /, and the other was a /srv – both without downtime.

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    • @Mark,

      In real world production environment, only DB servers are installed with GUI more over LVM GUI will not be configured.
      It’s good to practice in CLI to keep hands on any platform.

      Thanks & Regards,
      Babin Lonston

      Reply
  23. I have two hard drives, SATA 1 (/ dev / sdb1) 80 GB and SATA 2 (dev / sdc1) 40 GB. Problem: the 40 GB hard drive is damaged and I will replace it with a new 40GB hard drive as well. How can I reduce the disk (/ dev / sdc1) without losing my data?

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  24. Hi,
    it is possible to reduce filesystem mounted on “/” which can’t be umounted? I got “device is busy” error.
    Thanks in advance!

    Reply
  25. quick question
    in your article you have mentioned ” resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 8GB”
    should it be : resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 10GB” instead?

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  26. I guess you have not understood what I am trying to say. I understand that there are 2 ways of reducing lvm size. One is with size name and other is using extent. The problem I see here is that you have reduced lvm size by 8 GB using when reducing with name size. Now, when you reduce lvm size with physical extent you have reduced it by 2048 PE which is equal to 10GB. Our target was to reduce the lvm size to 10GB and not to 8GB which is the case that was carried out while reducing lvm size using name size. Don’t you think both the conversions contradict with each other? I hope you have got the point here.

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  27. hi, can you please clarify the below statement and rectify if incorrect:

    “For demonstration, I have created separate volume group and logical volume. Here, I’m going to reduce the logical volume tecmint_reduce_test. Now its 18GB in size. We need to reduce it to 10GB without data-loss. That means we need to reduce 8GB out of 18GB. Already there is 4GB data in the volume.”

    While reducing the LVM using size you have used 8G in the example but when you reduce the LVM using physical extend you have used 10240MB / 4PE = 2048PE.

    Is this a typo or it is a convention? Would be great if you could at least clarify it.

    Thanks,

    Reply
  28. Hi,
    if you are in rescue mode and you want to extend a partition, you have to remount / in read-write mode before lvextend and resize2fs :
    > mount -o remount, rw /
    AM

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    • @Arnaud Mounier,

      Thanks for the information however this scenario is very rare in production environment. Even a partition get fills we can get some free space by find and removing super blocks, Then we can extend the volume without having any downtime.

      Reply
  29. nice article, thanks.

    Need some help on this one,

    [root@directadmin04 ~]# pvs
    PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
    /dev/sda2 vg_directadmin04 lvm2 a– 99.51g 0
    [root@directadmin04 ~]# vgs
    VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
    vg_directadmin04 1 3 0 wz–n- 99.51g 0
    [root@directadmin04 ~]# lvs
    LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
    lv_home vg_directadmin04 -wi-ao—- 41.68g
    lv_root vg_directadmin04 -wi-ao—- 50.00g
    lv_swap vg_directadmin04 -wi-ao—- 7.83g
    [root@directadmin04 ~]#

    is there a way to down size the lv_root so that lv_home will become bigger, without losing information

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    • yes you can, But can’t perform from live want downtime for host and enter into maintenance mode to follow the resize steps.

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  30. Thank you for the post . you have one error .
    resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 8GB
    it should be :
    resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 10GB

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  31. I believe the line that says:
    # resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 8GB
    should read:
    # resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 10G

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  32. i would like to note that for newer distributions (where XFS might be used by default) you need to use xfs_growfs instead (install xfsprogs.)

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  33. This article is really helpful. I looked forward to finding some information to extend my logical volume with a new hard disk. Thanks!!

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  34. Very nice document and well explained. I found some discrepancies between the screen-shots and command. for example you can see that you fired the command to reduce the FS size 8GB…
    # resize2fs /dev/vg_tecmint_extra/tecmint_reduce_test 8GB

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  35. @Babin Lonston can you give me steps how to create new partion to install Ubuntu from existing LVM. I follwed your steps but it added that space to “Free PE /Size”can you tell me how to take that space out for installing ubuntu in that place.

    Current my machine is running fedora.

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  36. @ Egi Adithia Pradana, Yes its Possible to reduce the logical volume size and extend other logical volume in the same volume group. Even you can create a new logical volume if you have enough space in Volume group.

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    • @Babin Lonston can you give me steps how to create new partion to install Ubuntu from existing LVM. I follwed your steps but it added that space to “Free PE /Size”can you tell me how to take that space out for installing ubuntu in that place.

      Current my machine is running fedora.

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  37. hi
    it possible if i want to reduce some LVM partition and use the empty space after reducing to extending another LVM partition such root?

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  38. we can recover from metadata, Yes we can use LVM in raid. Going to write those articles soon. :) After thin-volumes.

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      • Hello, Pls i am trying to Reduce a LVM to 150MB and i follow the below step but at the end of my step, iam not able to mount the Filesystem back as the systems tells me that i user do fuser .
        2500

        my steps:

        umount /home
        e2fsck /dev/mapper/vg_nw
        resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg_new 150M
        lvcreduce -L 150M /dev/mapper/vg_new
        mount -a ………..This where the problems comes in, as i am not able to remount /home
        df -h . pls advice , is it only possible to reduce to GB not MB? pls help me on this ASAP. my email is [email protected]

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        • @OLUYOMI

          We can reduce lvm to any size. May i know the size of your LVM ?

          I’am assuming that you have a 500MB LVM with the name of lv_oluyomi and now you need to reduce it to 150MB ok.

          I’am assuming that your volume group is vg_oluyomi and your logical volume mounted under /mnt/oluyomi.

          1. First step you have to unmount the file system to reduce.

          # umount /mnt/oluyomi

          2. Check for the filesystem error before proceding to other steps.

          # e2fsck -ff /dev/vg_oluyomi/lv_oluyomi

          Check for any error, sure you have to pass in all 5 tests.

          3. Then resize. If you need to resize from 500MB to 150MB

          # resize2fs /dev/vg_oluyomi/lv_oluyomi 350M

          4. Then reduce the lvm

          # lvreduce -L -350M /dev/vg_oluyomi/lv_oluyomi

          5. Then resize the filesystem.

          # resize2fs /dev/vg_oluyomi/lv_oluyomi

          6. Then mount

          # mount /dev/vg_oluyomi/lv_oluyomi /mnt/oluyomi

          7. Check the mount point size now

          # df -h

          or check the lvm size now

          # lvdisplay /dev/vg_oluyomi/lv_oluyomi

          Hope you problem solved, let me know if there still you face the issue.

          { user do fuser } This means you currently using the file system. if you use lazy umount you can umount it even the filesystem under use. Just use -l option with umount.

          example: # umount -l /mnt/oluyomi

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        • you are not specify the reducing symbol

          ex:- extend means add + symbol
          lvextend -L +150M /dev/mapper/vg_new

          reduce means add – symbol

          umount /home
          e2fsck /dev/mapper/vg_nw
          resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg_new 150M
          lvcreduce -L -150M /dev/mapper/vg_new

          Reply

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