How to Extend/Reduce LVM's (Logical Volume Management) in Linux - Part II | Linux Today

How to Extend/Reduce LVM’s (Logical Volume Management) in Linux – Part II

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Ravi Saive
Aug 8, 2014

In this article, we are going to see how to extend volume group, extend and reduce a logical volume. Here we can reduce or extend the partitions in Logical volume management (LVM) also called as flexible volume file-system.

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Ravi Saive

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