[GUIDE] How to reduce or grow your Logical Volumes (LVM management)

I made some bad choices when defining the sizes of my Logical Volumes while installing OMV. After backing up about 3.5 TB of data I found I had to increase one LV and decrease another.

I found this how-to that explains how to do it: http://www.tecmint.com/extend-and-reduce-lvms-in-linux/

I did not quite follow the steps but used this how-to as a guide to resize. Worked like a charm

I must admit I used the OMV web interface to remount my resized shares

If your a noob (like me) this guide will surely help you.

HTH

Greetz

Sjonnie

You are absolutely right about shrinking the filesystem. Thanks for the warning!

I did not know about the -r option in lvextend. Good to know when I have to resize again in the future

Greetz,

Sjonnie