Lvreduce

lvreduce - Reduce the size of a logical volume

Shrinking is not supported on a GFS2 or XFS file system

Examples

Reduce to a total size of 1GB:

• TOTAL 1GB: lvreduce --resizefs -L 1GB vg01/lvol1

Related commands:

• resize2fs
• chfs (AIX)

See also

• LVM: LVM errors LVM scan commands lkvmetad, Add a new disk

scan: pvscan vgscan

LVM: lvs lvmscan lvm fullreport lvmreport lvmconfig lvmdump lvmcheck lvm dumpconfig

Scan: pvs vgs lvs pvscan vgscan

PV: pvcreate pvremove pvscan pvremove pvscan pvs pvchange pvck pvdisplay pvresize

LV: lvdisplay lvcreate lvremove, lvresize, lvextend, lvreduce, lvrename

VG: vgdisplay,vgcreate,vgremove, vgextend, vgreduce, vgscan, vgchange, vgrename, vgcfgbackup, vgcfgrestore, vgimportclone, vgck

Check commands: pvck vgck