Shringking a File System on a Logical Volume

External

• https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/40702/how-to-manage-and-use-lvm-logical-volume-management-in-ubuntu/

Internal

• Logical Volume Management Procedures

Overview

This is the simple case, it will only work if the logical volume *does not* contain a partition table:

fsadm

or

umount lvm_partition
resize2fs /dev/vg/lv newSize
lvresize -L disksize /dev/vg/lv
resize2fs /dev/vg/lv