Shrink/Reduce/Resize LVM Physical Volume on Linux Mint 17 LTS
Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Reduce/Shrink/Resize a LVM/LVM2 Physical Volume to Free Up Space on Linux Mint 17 LTS i386/amd64 Mate/Cinnamon/Kde/Xfce Desktop.
And after to have Shrinked the LVM Logical Volume the Problem is to find Where is Located the Free Space into the Physical LVM Volume…

How to Shrink the LVM Logical Volume on Mint
Boot System with Ubuntu (Mint/Kubuntu/Lubuntu/Xubuntu) Live Media.
Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
Install System-config-lvm GUI LVM Volume Manager.
sudo su && apt-get update
apt-get install system-config-lvm
Run System-config-lvm GUI LVM Volume Manager
system-config-lvm
Check the Free Space Location
Select Physical View.- If it is Located Between the Target Volume and the Swap Then you will Need to Execute All Steps
- If it is External you can directly Resizing the LVM with GParted!
Removing the LVM Swap Volume.
Take Note of the Name to Re-Create it Again Later!Install GParted on Ubuntu Based
apt-get install gparted
Run GParted.
Ctrl+Alt+t to Open a New Tab on Terminal
gparted
Shrinking the LVM Physical Volume with GParted.
Take Care of Leave enough Free Space to Re-Create the Swap LVM Volume Again Later!
Go to System-config-lvm and ReLoad.
Then ReCreate the LVM Swap Volume.
Put the Same Name as Before…
On File System leave the default ‘None’
For Security Bless again as Swap the New LVM Swap Volume.
So now Execute a Disk Scan to Find out existing Partitions:
lvmdiskscan
In the Output you should be able to Recognize your Device…
mkswap /dev/my-vg/my-swap_1
swapon /dev/my-vg/my-swap_1 && exit
Then you Can Finally, ReBoot into an Linux Mint LVM System with some FREE Space ;)