Before resizing a logical volume, you'll need to ensure the physical volume has available space.

The lvresize command can be used to add or remove space from an LVM logical volume. For example, let's say /dev/myVG/myLV is 1 GB.

~]# lvdisplay
. . .
LV Size    1.0 GiB

To increase myLV to use all of the free extents. There is no need to unmount the volume prior to increasing the size of the logical volume.

~]# lvresize --resizefs -l +100%FREE /dev/myVG/myLV

To decrease myLV, you will first need to unmount the volume. For example, lets say /dev/myVG/myLV is mounted on var.

~]# umount /var

You can now reduce the size of the volume. In this example, myLV is reduced to 900 MB. Prior to reducing the size of the volume, ensure no data is using the end of the sectors that will be eliminated.

~]# lvresize --resizefs --size 900M /dev/myVG/myLV

Remount the volume.

~]# mount.ext4 /dev/myVG/myLV /var