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LVRESIZE(8) System Manager's Manual LVRESIZE(8)
NAME top
lvresize — Resize a logical volumeSYNOPSIS top
**lvresize** _optionargs positionargs_
[ _optionargs_ ]
[ _positionargs_ ]
**--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**DESCRIPTION top
lvresize resizes an LV in the same way as lvextend and lvreduce.
See [lvextend(8)](../man8/lvextend.8.html) and [lvreduce(8)](../man8/lvreduce.8.html) for more information.
In the usage section below, **--size** _Size_ can be replaced with **--ex‐**
**tents** _Number_. See both descriptions the options section.USAGE top
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** ]OPTIONS top
**--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. **nor‐**
**mal** applies common sense rules such as not placing parallel
stripes on the same PV. **inherit** applies the VG policy to
an LV. **contiguous** requires new PEs be placed adjacent to
existing PEs. **cling** places new PEs on the same PV as ex‐
isting PEs in the same stripe of the LV. If there are suf‐
ficient PEs for an allocation, but normal does not use
them, **anywhere** will use them even if it reduces perfor‐
mance, e.g. by placing two stripes on the same PV. Option‐
al positional PV args on the command line can also be used
to limit which PVs the command will use for allocation.
See [lvm(8)](../man8/lvm.8.html) for more information about allocation.
**-A**|**--autobackup y**|**n**
Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically af‐
ter a change. Enabling this is strongly advised! See
[vgcfgbackup(8)](../man8/vgcfgbackup.8.html) for more information.
**--commandprofile** _String_
The command profile to use for command configuration. See
[lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) for more information about profiles.
**--config** _String_
Config settings for the command. These override [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html)
settings. The String arg uses the same format as
[lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html), or may use section/field syntax. See
[lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) 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)](../man8/lvmdevices.8.html) command. This overrides the [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) **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 spec‐
ifying size. The total number of physical extents used
will be greater when redundant data is needed for RAID lev‐
els. An alternate syntax allows the size to be determined
indirectly as a percentage of the size of a related 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 ex‐
pressed as a percentage, the size defines an upper limit
for the number of logical extents in the new LV. The pre‐
cise number of logical extents in the new LV is not deter‐
mined until the command has completed. 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. de‐
bug: record full command debugging.
**--lockopt** _String_
Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See
[lvmlockd(8)](../man8/lvmlockd.8.html) 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 pro‐
ceed with this option.
**--nohints**
Do not use the hints file to locate devices for PVs. A com‐
mand may read more devices to find PVs when hints are not
used. The command will still perform standard hint file in‐
validation where appropriate.
**--nolocking**
Disable locking.
**--nosync**
Causes the creation of mirror, raid1, raid4, raid5 and
raid10 to skip the initial synchronization. In case of mir‐
ror, 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 written,
though any data written afterwards will cause parity blocks
to be stored. This is useful for skipping a potentially
long and resource intensive initial sync of an empty mir‐
ror/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 synchroniza‐
tion 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 ini‐
tial 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, depend‐
ing 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)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html). **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 identification.
**json** produces report output in JSON format. See
[lvmreport(7)](../man7/lvmreport.7.html) for more information.
**-r**|**--resizefs**
Resize underlying filesystem together with the LV using
[fsadm(8)](../man8/fsadm.8.html).
**-L**|**--size** [**+**|**-**]_Size_[m|UNIT]
Specifies the new size of the LV. The --size and --extents
options are alternate methods of specifying size. The to‐
tal 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 absolute
size, but is relative and added or subtracted from the cur‐
rent 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 parity.
The largest number depends on the RAID type (raid0: 64,
raid10: 32, raid4/5: 63, raid6: 62), and when unspecified,
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)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) **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 never‐
theless returning success to the calling function. This may
lead to unusual error messages in multi-stage operations if
a tool relies on reading back metadata it believes 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)](../man7/lvmraid.7.html).
For thin provisioning (**thin**, **thin-pool**) see [lvmthin(7)](../man7/lvmthin.7.html).
For performance caching (**cache**, **cache-pool**) see
[lvmcache(7)](../man7/lvmcache.7.html). For copy-on-write snapshots (**snapshot**) see
usage definitions. For VDO (**vdo**) see [lvmvdo(7)](../man7/lvmvdo.7.html). 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 as‐
sume the answer yes. Use with extreme caution. (For auto‐
matic no, see -qq.)VARIABLES top
_LV_ Logical Volume name. See [lvm(8)](../man8/lvm.8.html) 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 gener‐
ally 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. In‐
put units are always treated as base two values, regardless
of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024.
The default input unit is specified by letter, followed 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 control --units,
where capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES top
See [lvm(8)](../man8/lvm.8.html) for information about environment variables used by
lvm. For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a
required VG parameter.EXAMPLES top
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**SEE ALSO top
[lvm(8)](../man8/lvm.8.html), [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html), [lvmconfig(8)](../man8/lvmconfig.8.html), [lvmdevices(8)](../man8/lvmdevices.8.html),
[pvchange(8)](../man8/pvchange.8.html), [pvck(8)](../man8/pvck.8.html), [pvcreate(8)](../man8/pvcreate.8.html), [pvdisplay(8)](../man8/pvdisplay.8.html), [pvmove(8)](../man8/pvmove.8.html),
[pvremove(8)](../man8/pvremove.8.html), [pvresize(8)](../man8/pvresize.8.html), [pvs(8)](../man8/pvs.8.html), [pvscan(8)](../man8/pvscan.8.html),
[vgcfgbackup(8)](../man8/vgcfgbackup.8.html), [vgcfgrestore(8)](../man8/vgcfgrestore.8.html), [vgchange(8)](../man8/vgchange.8.html), [vgck(8)](../man8/vgck.8.html),
[vgcreate(8)](../man8/vgcreate.8.html), [vgconvert(8)](../man8/vgconvert.8.html), [vgdisplay(8)](../man8/vgdisplay.8.html), [vgexport(8)](../man8/vgexport.8.html), [vgextend(8)](../man8/vgextend.8.html),
[vgimport(8)](../man8/vgimport.8.html), [vgimportclone(8)](../man8/vgimportclone.8.html), [vgimportdevices(8)](../man8/vgimportdevices.8.html), [vgmerge(8)](../man8/vgmerge.8.html),
[vgmknodes(8)](../man8/vgmknodes.8.html), [vgreduce(8)](../man8/vgreduce.8.html), [vgremove(8)](../man8/vgremove.8.html), [vgrename(8)](../man8/vgrename.8.html), [vgs(8)](../man8/vgs.8.html),
[vgscan(8)](../man8/vgscan.8.html), [vgsplit(8)](../man8/vgsplit.8.html),
[lvcreate(8)](../man8/lvcreate.8.html), [lvchange(8)](../man8/lvchange.8.html), [lvconvert(8)](../man8/lvconvert.8.html), [lvdisplay(8)](../man8/lvdisplay.8.html), [lvextend(8)](../man8/lvextend.8.html),
[lvreduce(8)](../man8/lvreduce.8.html), [lvremove(8)](../man8/lvremove.8.html), [lvrename(8)](../man8/lvrename.8.html), [lvresize(8)](../man8/lvresize.8.html), [lvs(8)](../man8/lvs.8.html),
[lvscan(8)](../man8/lvscan.8.html),
[lvm-fullreport(8)](../man8/lvm-fullreport.8.html), [lvm-lvpoll(8)](../man8/lvm-lvpoll.8.html), [blkdeactivate(8)](../man8/blkdeactivate.8.html), [lvmdump(8)](../man8/lvmdump.8.html),
[dmeventd(8)](../man8/dmeventd.8.html), [lvmpolld(8)](../man8/lvmpolld.8.html), [lvmlockd(8)](../man8/lvmlockd.8.html), [lvmlockctl(8)](../man8/lvmlockctl.8.html), [cmirrord(8)](../man8/cmirrord.8.html),
[lvmdbusd(8)](../man8/lvmdbusd.8.html), [fsadm(8)](../man8/fsadm.8.html),
[lvmsystemid(7)](../man7/lvmsystemid.7.html), [lvmreport(7)](../man7/lvmreport.7.html), [lvmcache(7)](../man7/lvmcache.7.html), [lvmraid(7)](../man7/lvmraid.7.html), [lvmthin(7)](../man7/lvmthin.7.html),
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