Linux Xubuntu 14.04 Trusty LTS How-to Shrink/Reduce/Resize a LVM Physical Volume with Swap Easy Guide

Shrink/Reduce/Resize LVM Physical Volume on Xubuntu 14.04 Trusty LTS

The Linux Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How-to Reduce/Shrink/Resize a LVM/LVM2 Physical Volume to Free Up Space on Xubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr LTS i386/amd64 Linux Desktop.

After to have Shrinked the LVM Logical Volume the Problem is: Where is Located the Free Space into the Physical LVM Volume…

1. How-to Shrink the LVM Logical Volume on Xubuntu:

   Xubuntu Shrinking LVM Logical Volume

   Xubuntu Resizing LVM Logical Volume.

2. Boot System with Ubuntu (Kubuntu/Lubuntu/Xubuntu) Live Media

3. Open Terminal Window
   Ctrl+Alt+t
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

4. Install System-config-lvm GUI LVM Volume Manager on Ubuntu Based

   sudo su && apt-get update

   apt-get install system-config-lvm

5. Run System-config-lvm GUI LVM Volume Manager

   system-config-lvm

6. 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!

   

7. Removing the LVM Swap Volume

   
   Take Note of the Name to Re-Create it Again Later!

8. Install GParted on Ubuntu Based

   apt-get install gparted

9. Run GParted

   Ctrl+Alt+t to Open a New Tab on Terminal

   gparted

10. Shrinking the LVM Physical Volume with GParted

    Take Care of Leave enough Free Space to Re-Create the Swap LVM Volume Again Later!
    
    
    

11. Go to System-config-lvm and ReLoad

    

12. Then ReCreate the LVM Swap Volume

    Put the Same Name as Before…
    
    On File System leave the default ‘None’
    

13. For Security Bless again as Swap the New LVM Swap Volume

    lvmdiskscan

    mkswap /dev/my-vg/my-swap_1

    swapon /dev/my-vg/my-swap_1 && exit

    Then You Can Finally ReBoot into an Xubuntu LVM System with some FREE Space ;)

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