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LVRESIZE(8) System Manager's Manual LVRESIZE(8)
lvresize — Resize a logical volume
lvresize option_args position_args [ option_args ] [ position_args ] --alloc contiguous|cling|cling_by_tags|normal|anywhere| inherit -A|--autobackup y|n --commandprofile String --config String -d|--debug --devices PV --devicesfile String --driverloaded y|n -l|--extents [+|-]Number[PERCENT] -f|--force -h|--help --journal String --lockopt String --longhelp -n|--nofsck --nohints --nolocking --nosync --noudevsync --poolmetadatasize [+]Size[m|UNIT] --profile String -q|--quiet --reportformat basic|json -r|--resizefs -L|--size [+|-]Size[m|UNIT] -i|--stripes Number -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] -t|--test --type linear|striped|snapshot|raid|mirror|thin|thin-pool| vdo|vdo-pool|cache|cache-pool|writecache -v|--verbose --version -y|--yes
lvresize resizes an LV in the same way as lvextend and lvreduce. See lvextend(8) and lvreduce(8) for more information. In the usage section below, --size Size can be replaced with --extents Number. See both descriptions the options section.
Resize an LV by a specified size. lvresize -L|--size [+|-]Size[m|UNIT] LV [ -l|--extents [+|-]Number[PERCENT] ] [ -r|--resizefs ] [ --poolmetadatasize [+]Size[m|UNIT] ] [ COMMON_OPTIONS ] [ PV ... ] — Resize an LV by specified PV extents. lvresize LV PV ... [ -r|--resizefs ] [ COMMON_OPTIONS ] — Resize a pool metadata SubLV by a specified size. lvresize --poolmetadatasize [+]Size[m|UNIT] LV1 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ] [ PV ... ] LV1 types: thinpool — Common options for command: [ -A|--autobackup y|n ] [ -f|--force ] [ -n|--nofsck ] [ -i|--stripes Number ] [ -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] ] [ --alloc contiguous|cling|cling_by_tags|normal|anywhere| inherit ] [ --nosync ] [ --noudevsync ] [ --reportformat basic|json ] [ --type linear|striped|snapshot|raid|mirror|thin| thin-pool|vdo|vdo-pool|cache|cache-pool|writecache ] Common options for lvm: [ -d|--debug ] [ -h|--help ] [ -q|--quiet ] [ -t|--test ] [ -v|--verbose ] [ -y|--yes ] [ --commandprofile String ] [ --config String ] [ --devices PV ] [ --devicesfile String ] [ --driverloaded y|n ] [ --journal String ] [ --lockopt String ] [ --longhelp ] [ --nohints ] [ --nolocking ] [ --profile String ] [ --version ]
--alloc contiguous|cling|cling_by_tags|normal|anywhere|inherit Determines the allocation policy when a command needs to allocate Physical Extents (PEs) from the VG. Each VG and LV has an allocation policy which can be changed with vgchange/lvchange, or overridden on the command line. normal applies common sense rules such as not placing par‐ allel stripes on the same PV. inherit applies the VG pol‐ icy to an LV. contiguous requires new PEs be placed adja‐ cent to existing PEs. cling places new PEs on the same PV as existing PEs in the same stripe of the LV. If there are sufficient PEs for an allocation, but normal does not use them, anywhere will use them even if it reduces per‐ formance, e.g. by placing two stripes on the same PV. Op‐ tional positional PV args on the command line can also be used to limit which PVs the command will use for alloca‐ tion. See lvm(8) for more information about allocation. -A|--autobackup y|n Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically after a change. Enabling this is strongly advised! See vgcfgbackup(8) for more information. --commandprofile String The command profile to use for command configuration. See lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles. --config String Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf(5) settings. The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf(5), or may use section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more information about config. -d|--debug ... Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail of messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if configured). --devices PV Devices that the command can use. This option can be re‐ peated or accepts a comma separated list of devices. This overrides the devices file. --devicesfile String A file listing devices that LVM should use. The file must exist in /etc/lvm/devices/ and is managed with the lvmdevices(8) command. This overrides the lvm.conf(5) de‐ vices/devicesfile and devices/use_devicesfile settings. --driverloaded y|n If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device- mapper. For testing and debugging. -l|--extents [+|-]Number[PERCENT] Specifies the new size of the LV in logical extents. The --size and --extents options are alternate methods of specifying size. The total number of physical extents used will be greater when redundant data is needed for RAID levels. An alternate syntax allows the size to be determined indirectly as a percentage of the size of a re‐ lated VG, LV, or set of PVs. The suffix %VG denotes the total size of the VG, the suffix %FREE the remaining free space in the VG, and the suffix %PVS the free space in the specified PVs. For a snapshot, the size can be expressed as a percentage of the total size of the origin LV with the suffix %ORIGIN (100%ORIGIN provides space for the whole origin). When expressed as a percentage, the size defines an upper limit for the number of logical extents in the new LV. The precise number of logical extents in the new LV is not determined until the command has com‐ pleted. When the plus + or minus - prefix is used, the value is not an absolute size, but is relative and added or subtracted from the current size. -f|--force ... Override various checks, confirmations and protections. Use with extreme caution. -h|--help Display help text. --journal String Record information in the systemd journal. This informa‐ tion is in addition to information enabled by the lvm.conf log/journal setting. command: record information about the command. output: record the default command output. debug: record full command debugging. --lockopt String Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See lvmlockd(8) for more information. --longhelp Display long help text. -n|--nofsck Do not perform fsck before resizing filesystem when filesystem requires it. You may need to use --force to proceed with this option. --nohints Do not use the hints file to locate devices for PVs. A command may read more devices to find PVs when hints are not used. The command will still perform standard hint file invalidation where appropriate. --nolocking Disable locking. --nosync Causes the creation of mirror, raid1, raid4, raid5 and raid10 to skip the initial synchronization. In case of mirror, raid1 and raid10, any data written afterwards will be mirrored, but the original contents will not be copied. In case of raid4 and raid5, no parity blocks will be writ‐ ten, though any data written afterwards will cause parity blocks to be stored. This is useful for skipping a poten‐ tially long and resource intensive initial sync of an emp‐ ty mirror/raid1/raid4/raid5 and raid10 LV. This option is not valid for raid6, because raid6 relies on proper parity (P and Q Syndromes) being created during initial synchro‐ nization in order to reconstruct proper user date in case of device failures. raid0 and raid0_meta do not provide any data copies or parity support and thus do not support initial synchronization. --noudevsync Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for notification from udev. It will continue irrespective of any possible udev processing in the background. Only use this if udev is not running or has rules that ignore the devices LVM creates. --poolmetadatasize [+]Size[m|UNIT] Specifies the new size of the pool metadata LV. The plus prefix + can be used, in which case the value is added to the current size. --profile String An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, de‐ pending on the command. -q|--quiet ... Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose. Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with answer 'no'. --reportformat basic|json Overrides current output format for reports which is de‐ fined globally by the report/output_format setting in lvm.conf(5). basic is the original format with columns and rows. If there is more than one report per command, each report is prefixed with the report name for identifi‐ cation. json produces report output in JSON format. See lvmreport(7) for more information. -r|--resizefs Resize underlying filesystem together with the LV using fsadm(8). -L|--size [+|-]Size[m|UNIT] Specifies the new size of the LV. The --size and --ex‐ tents options are alternate methods of specifying size. The total number of physical extents used will be greater when redundant data is needed for RAID levels. When the plus + or minus - prefix is used, the value is not an ab‐ solute size, but is relative and added or subtracted from the current size. -i|--stripes Number Specifies the number of stripes in a striped LV. This is the number of PVs (devices) that a striped LV is spread across. Data that appears sequential in the LV is spread across multiple devices in units of the stripe size (see --stripesize). This does not change existing allocated space, but only applies to space being allocated by the command. When creating a RAID 4/5/6 LV, this number does not include the extra devices that are required for pari‐ ty. The largest number depends on the RAID type (raid0: 64, raid10: 32, raid4/5: 63, raid6: 62), and when unspeci‐ fied, the default depends on the RAID type (raid0: 2, raid10: 2, raid4/5: 3, raid6: 5.) To stripe a new raid LV across all PVs by default, see lvm.conf(5) alloca‐ tion/raid_stripe_all_devices. -I|--stripesize Size[k|UNIT] The amount of data that is written to one device before moving to the next in a striped LV. -t|--test Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is implemented by disabling all metadata writing but nev‐ ertheless returning success to the calling function. This may lead to unusual error messages in multi-stage opera‐ tions if a tool relies on reading back metadata it be‐ lieves has changed but hasn't. --type linear|striped|snapshot|raid|mirror|thin|thin-pool|vdo| vdo-pool|cache|cache-pool|writecache The LV type, also known as "segment type" or "segtype". See usage descriptions for the specific ways to use these types. For more information about redundancy and perfor‐ mance (raid<N>, mirror, striped, linear) see lvmraid(7). For thin provisioning (thin, thin-pool) see lvmthin(7). For performance caching (cache, cache-pool) see lvmcache(7). For copy-on-write snapshots (snapshot) see usage definitions. For VDO (vdo) see lvmvdo(7). Several commands omit an explicit type option because the type is inferred from other options or shortcuts (e.g. --stripes, --mirrors, --snapshot, --virtualsize, --thin, --cache, --vdo). Use inferred types with care because it can lead to unexpected results. -v|--verbose ... Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the detail of messages sent to stdout and stderr. --version Display version information. -y|--yes Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the answer yes. Use with extreme caution. (For au‐ tomatic no, see -qq.)
LV Logical Volume name. See lvm(8) for valid names. An LV positional arg generally includes the VG name and LV name, e.g. VG/LV. LV1 indicates the LV must have a specific type, where the accepted LV types are listed. (raid repre‐ sents raid<N> type). PV Physical Volume name, a device path under /dev. For com‐ mands managing physical extents, a PV positional arg gen‐ erally accepts a suffix indicating a range (or multiple ranges) of physical extents (PEs). When the first PE is omitted, it defaults to the start of the device, and when the last PE is omitted it defaults to end. Start and end range (inclusive): PV[:PE-PE]... Start and length range (counting from 0): PV[:PE+PE]... String See the option description for information about the string content. Size[UNIT] Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input units are always treated as base two values, regard‐ less of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default input unit is specified by letter, fol‐ lowed by |UNIT. UNIT represents other possible input units: b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB, p|P is PiB, e|E is EiB. (This should not be confused with the output con‐ trol --units, where capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)
See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm. For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG parameter.
Extend an LV by 16MB using specific physical extents. lvresize -L+16M vg1/lv1 /dev/sda:0-1 /dev/sdb:0-1 Resize an LV to use 50% of the size volume group. lvresize -l50%VG vg1/lv1
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