RHCE LVM Manage Extend Reduce Add Remove

In our pervious article we learnt how to create lvm partition and mount them permanently in /etc/fstab . If you missed it we suggest reviewing
RHCE Linux lvm partitions
before going with advance lvm management. In this tutorial guide we will learn about advance lvm management. In our pervious article we have created two lvm partitions. Now we will manage them. First we will extend the size of lv00 our first lvm partition.

Check all these partition are functioning properly

Check the current size of lv00

As you can see the current size of lv00 is 100MB. To extend it with 50MB space run these commands

Now we will reduce the size of 20MB from lvm partition.
If you have free space in lvm partition no data lose will happen. Lose in data will happen only when partition is full.

at this moment you should be able to extend and reduce the size of lvm partition now we will remove these partitions

don't forget to remove these partitions form /etc/fstab also

now use fdisk command to delete these partition form hard disk

#fdisk /dev/sda

run partprobe command to tell kernel about change and verify it

Do these practical of lvm as much as you can as RHCE is performance based exam and none of us will want to retake it. We have summarized all important commands in a single table cram it.

Command	Description
partprobe	To notify kernel about the change in device
pvcreate	To create physical volume
pvdisplay	To display the size and other information about physical volume
pvremove	To remove the physical volume
pvresize	To modify the size of physical volume
pvscan	To scan the physical volume
vgextend	to extend the size of volume group
vgreduce	to reduce the size of volume group
vgscan	to scan the volume group for change
vgdisplay	to display the status and information about volume group
lvdisplay	will display the status of lvm
lvreduce	to reduce the size of lvm
lvextend	to extend the size of lvm
lvcreate	to create the lvm
lvremove	to remove the lvm partition
lvscan	to scan lvm for change

fdisk	-l	To show the current partition status of hard disk
fdisk	/dev/sda	To invoke fdisk utility on /dev/sda
	n	to create new partition
	t	to define file types
	d	to delete partitions
	w	to save change