Once upon a time, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> said:
> You can shrink a PV, but you will loose the extents that are stored in
> the space that you have truncated. I don't consider that resizing.

Changing the size of something is called resizing.

> Unfortunately, pvmove can only move extends to other PVs but not to a
> different location in the same PV.

Not true. It isn't as straightforward; you have to know a map of the
PEs and specify them to the pvmove command like (assuming the
destination PEs are not in use):

pvmove /dev/sda2:1000-1100 /dev/sda2:100-200

IIRC you get a warning, and it is slow (obviously, reading and writing a
bunch of data on the same drive is slow).
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http://fedorasolved.org/Members/zcat/shrink-lvm-for-new-partition

Does that link have the information for handling the physical resizing?

I had used the LVM option in the past, but have gone to making regular
partitions on install, but do have some machines with old LVM setups.

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