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Mike Snitzer 3d425215a8 Continue to make --units and --size consistent (in code and man pages):
Update units_to_bytes() to support (S)ectors: 500 bytes.
- 500 byte (S)ectors is of questionable value but it adds to consistency
  if a user happens to use --units S.  This seems better than an error.

Updated test/t-covercmd.sh to test --units [hS]

Document the units that can be displayed via --units uniformly.
- (p)etabytes and (e)xabytes were missing in pvs, vgs and lvs man pages.

Made lvreduce man page "... in units of megabytes." consistent (with the
lvextend and lvresize man pages).
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.TH LVREDUCE 8 "LVM TOOLS #VERSION#" "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[bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE]}
[\-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!!!
.br
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.
.br
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).
.br
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.
.br
.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[bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE]
Reduce or set the logical volume size in units of megabytes.
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)