How can I reduce the size of my VG?

How can I reduce the size of my VG?

Reducing the logical volume involves the below steps.

  1. Unmount the file system.
  2. Check the file system for any errors.
  3. Shrink the file system size.
  4. Reduce the logical volume size.
  5. Re-check the file system for errors (Optional).
  6. Mount the file system.
  7. Check the reduced file system size.

How do you resize LV?

How to Resize/Shrink LVM

  1. Unmount the filesystem (if its root volume which requires booting into a Live CD to complete the work)
  2. Use fsck command to check the filesystem before resizing it.
  3. Resize the filesystem to 800MB before reducing the LV size.
  4. Reduce the size of the logical Volume 800MB.
  5. Mount the filesystem.

How do I resize a PV?

How to extend a Linux PV partition online after virtual disk…

  1. extend the partition: delete and create a larger one with fdisk.
  2. extend the PV size with pvresize.
  3. use free extents for lvresize operations.
  4. and then resize2fs for file system.

What is Lvresize in Linux?

If you are running out of space and you want to add more space to your LVM volume, you can use the lvresize command to do so. To do that, unmount the volume and use the lvresize command. ( Actually, it is not required that you unmount the volume to grow it, but it is done as an extra precaution.)

Does GParted work on SSD?

GParted works with the following storage devices: Flash memory devices, such as USB memory sticks, Solid State Drives (SSD’s), and Non-Volatile Memory Express devices (NVMe’s) RAID Devices (hardware RAID, motherboard BIOS RAID, and Linux software RAID)

Is it safe to shrink a partition?

The “Shrink Volume” is 100% safe to make sure that your data will be not affected. However, it’s worth noting that the “Extend Volume” option CAN or CANNOT delete data, depending on whether there is unallocated space on the right side of the partition you’re trying to enlarge.