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How to extend & reduce Swap Space on an LVM2 Logical Volume

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Pradeep Kumar
Jun 3, 2014

By default all Linux(RHEL,CentOS,Fedora & Ubuntu) like operating system uses all available space during installation. If this is the case with your system, then you must first add a new physical volume to the volume group used by the swap space.
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Pradeep Kumar

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