lvreduce

lvreduce allows you to reduce the size of a logical volume. Be careful when reducing a logical volume's size, because data in the reduced part is lost!!!

Documentation

• man 8 'lvreduce' [EN]

Syntax

lvreduce [PARAMETER ...] NAME|PATH

Parameters

-L [-]UNITS, --size [-]UNITS

Reduce or set the logical volume size in UNITS of megabyte by default.

A size suffix is optional (Default unit is megabytes):

• K for kilobytes
• M for megabytes
• G for gigabytes
• T for terabytes