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NAME

       lvresize - Resize a logical volume

SYNOPSIS

       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
           --driverloaded y|n
        -l|--extents [+|-]Number[PERCENT]
        -f|--force
        -h|--help
           --lockopt String
           --longhelp
        -n|--nofsck
           --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|mirror|raid|thin|cache|vdo|thin-pool|cache-pool|vdo-pool
        -v|--verbose
           --version
        -y|--yes

DESCRIPTION

       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.

USAGE

       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] LV_thinpool
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
           [ PV ... ]
       -

       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|mirror|raid|thin|cache|vdo|thin-pool|cache-pool|vdo-pool ]

       Common options for lvm:
           [ -d|--debug ]
           [ -h|--help ]
           [ -q|--quiet ]
           [ -t|--test ]
           [ -v|--verbose ]
           [ -y|--yes ]
           [    --commandprofile String ]
           [    --config String ]
           [    --driverloaded y|n ]
           [    --lockopt String ]
           [    --longhelp ]
           [    --nolocking ]
           [    --profile String ]
           [    --version ]

OPTIONS

       --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 overriden on the command line.  normal 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 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 performance, e.g. by placing two stripes
              on the same PV.  Optional positional PV args on the command line can also be used
              to limit which PVs the command will use for allocation.  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 settings.  The String arg
              uses the same format as lvm.conf, 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).

       --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 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 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
              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.

       --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.

       --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 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 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 synchronization 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, depending 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 defined globally by the
              report/output_format setting in lvm.conf.  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) 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 --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.  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.

       -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
              allocation/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 nevertheless 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|mirror|raid|thin|cache|vdo|thin-pool|cache-pool|vdo-pool
              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
              performance (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 automatic no, see -qq.)

VARIABLES

       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.  LV  followed  by  _<type>  indicates
              that an LV of the given type is required. (raid represents raid<N> type)

       PV
              Physical  Volume  name,  a  device path under /dev.  For commands managing physical
              extents, a PV positional arg generally 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, 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: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE.  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

       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.

EXAMPLES

       Extend an LV by 16MB using specific physical extents:
       lvresize -L+16M vg1/lv1 /dev/sda:0-1 /dev/sdb:0-1

SEE ALSO

       lvm(8) lvm.conf(5) lvmconfig(8)

       pvchange(8)  pvck(8)  pvcreate(8)  pvdisplay(8)  pvmove(8)  pvremove(8) pvresize(8) pvs(8)
       pvscan(8)

       vgcfgbackup(8) vgcfgrestore(8) vgchange(8) vgck(8) vgcreate(8)  vgconvert(8)  vgdisplay(8)
       vgexport(8)  vgextend(8)  vgimport(8) vgimportclone(8) vgmerge(8) vgmknodes(8) vgreduce(8)
       vgremove(8) vgrename(8) vgs(8) vgscan(8) vgsplit(8)

       lvcreate(8) lvchange(8)  lvconvert(8)  lvdisplay(8)  lvextend(8)  lvreduce(8)  lvremove(8)
       lvrename(8) lvresize(8) lvs(8) lvscan(8)

       lvm-fullreport(8) lvm-lvpoll(8) lvm2-activation-generator(8) blkdeactivate(8) lvmdump(8)

       dmeventd(8) lvmpolld(8) lvmlockd(8) lvmlockctl(8) cmirrord(8) lvmdbusd(8)

       lvmsystemid(7) lvmreport(7) lvmraid(7) lvmthin(7) lvmcache(7)