.TH LVREDUCE 8 "LVM TOOLS" "Sistina Software UK" \" -*- nroff -*-
.SH NAME
lvreduce \- reduce the size of a logical volume
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lvreduce
[\-A/\-\-autobackup y/n] [\-d/\-\-debug] [\-f/\-\-force]
[\-h/\-?/\-\-help]
{\-l/\-\-extents [\-]LogicalExtentsNumber[%{VG|LV|FREE}] |
\-L/\-\-size [\-]LogicalVolumeSize[kKmMgGtT]}
[\-t/\-\-test]
[\-v/\-\-verbose] LogicalVolume[Path]
.SH DESCRIPTION
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!!! 
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You should therefore ensure that any filesystem on the volume is 
resized
.I before
running lvreduce so that the extents that are to be removed are not in use.
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Shrinking snapshot logical volumes (see
.B lvcreate(8)
for information to create snapshots) is supported as well.
But to change the number of copies in a mirrored logical
volume use 
.B lvconvert (8).
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Sizes will be rounded if necessary - for example, the volume size must
be an exact number of extents and the size of a striped segment must
be a multiple of the number of stripes.
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.SH OPTIONS
See \fBlvm\fP for common options.
.TP
.I \-f, \-\-force
Force size reduction without any question.
.TP
.I \-l, \-\-extents [\-]LogicalExtentsNumber[%{VG|LV|FREE}]
Reduce or set the logical volume size in units of logical extents.
With the - sign the value will be subtracted from
the logical volume's actual size and without it the will be taken as
an absolute size.
The number can also be expressed as a percentage of the total space
in the Volume Group with the suffix %VG or relative to the existing
size of the Logical Volume with the suffix %LV or as a percentage of the remaining
free space in the Volume Group with the suffix %FREE.
.TP
.I \-L, \-\-size [\-]LogicalVolumeSize[kKmMgGtTpPeE]
Reduce or set the logical volume size in units of megabyte by default.
A size suffix of k for kilobyte, m for megabyte, 
g for gigabytes, t for terabytes, p for petabytes 
or e for exabytes is optional.
With the - sign the value will be subtracted from
the logical volume's actual size and without it it will be taken as
an absolute size.
.SH Example
"lvreduce -l -3 vg00/lvol1" reduces the size of logical volume lvol1
in volume group vg00 by 3 logical extents.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR lvchange (8),
.BR lvconvert (8), 
.BR lvcreate (8), 
.BR lvextend (8), 
.BR lvm (8), 
.BR lvresize (8),
.BR vgreduce (8)