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Associated Information

- Changing the dump area
- Disk striping with LVM
- Creating LVM Filesystem
- Mirroring disks with LVM
- Mirroring the Root Volume
- Moving LVM disks
- Setting up swap under LVM

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Reducing the size

1. Ensure no-one is using the filesystem (fuser or lsof)

2. backup data using whichever utility you prefer

3. vgcfgbackup /dev/vg_name for whichever volume group filesystem is in

4. umount /dev/vg_name/lv_name

5. lvreduce -L size /dev/vg_name/lv_name

6. newfs -F vxfs /dev/vg_name/rlv_name (or -F hfs for hfs filesystem)

7. fsck /dev/vg_name/lv_name

8. mount /dev/vg_name/lv_name /mount_point

9. restore from backup taken at point 2

Increase size