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Reduce and Relocate Volume Groups

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Logical Volume Management allows for removing unused physical volumes (PVs) and moving an entire volume group (VGs). The removal of a PV shrinks the overall size of the VG.

This tutorial will work with the Oracle Linux Volume Manager utilities to shrink a volume group by removing a physical volume and then transferring the volume group to another system.

Objectives

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

  • Move a logical volume
  • Shrink a volume group
  • Transfer a volume group to another system

Prerequisites

  • Minimum of two Oracle Linux systems

  • Each system should have Oracle Linux installed and configured with:

    • A non-root user account with sudo access
    • Additional block volumes for use with LVM