Linux Mint 17 Shrink LVM With Swap Easy Guide

Linux Mint 17 Shrink LVM with Swap

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Shrink LVM/LVM2 on Linux Mint 17 LTS 32/64-bit Mate/Cinnamon/Kde/Xfce Desktop.

And to Shrink LVM Linux Mint 17 Volume we have to Make Use of the system-config-lvm Software Tool.

Especially relevant: after to have Shrinked the LVM Logical Volume the Problem is to find Where is Located the Free Space into the Physical LVM Volume!

1. How to Shrink the LVM Logical Volume on Mint

   Mint Shrinking LVM Logical Volume

   Mint Resizing LVM Logical Volume

2. Boot System with Mint or Ubuntu-based Live Media.

3. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.

4. And Install System-config-lvm GUI LVM Volume Manager
   Login as SuperUser to shorter the commands:

   apt update

   Then install the Required Tool:

   apt install system-config-lvm

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

   system-config-lvm

6. Again 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.

    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 ;)