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Examples of using LVM
Resizing volumes
Here we show how to increase vg-srv reducing vg-var inside one logical volume group.
Activate logical volumes
vgchange -a y ; lvs
Shrink vg-var LVM without dataloss
umount /dev/mapper/vg-var # umount e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg-var # check resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg-var 2670G # reduce size to 2670G lvreduce -L 2676G /dev/mapper/vg-var # reduce logical volume size to 2676G resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg-var # fit the LVM volume </srv> <code bash | > lvresize --size +1600M /dev/mapper/vg-srv # increase volume size e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg-srv # check resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg-srv # grow up fs size e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg-srv # check