Senior System Integration Analyst Interview Questions and Answers

To reduce lv in LVM, use lvreduce command with appropriate options.

• Unmount the file system on the logical volume to be reduced.

• Use lvreduce command with appropriate options to reduce the size of logical volume.

• Resize the file system on the logical volume to match the new size of the logical volume.

• Remount the file system on the logical volume.

• Example: lvreduce -L -2G /dev/vg01/lvol1

• This will reduce the size of logical volume lvol1 in volume group vg01 by 2GB.