Shrinking LVM Logical Volumes is not supported
I can't shrink a volume on my Linux installation/drive. I never thought this would occur even when using the coldest water. :) I installed a Linux distro to the only SSD. I stupidly used the default install which gobbled up the complete drive using the standard boot partition at the beginning and a logical partition when the extended partition. Ok, so i needed/wanted to installed another Linux distro along side the original distro. Well, no problem I thought. I booted into the desired Linux Live distro on the USB stick. No problems. Everything normal. Then I ran Gparted (GUI) and tried to shrink the logical volume and create another volume for the additional Linux distro. That's where it got crazy. I "deactived"/unmounted the logical vol and tried shrink from about 900GB to 300GB - nothing. Ok. So maybe from CLI. Same - cannot shrink the lvm logical volume. Ok I thought maybe fdisk - same no joy. It's not a life of death situation. I can easily just reinstall a new Linux image but make sure that put it on a smaller volume. But now I'm really perplexed. Is there something about a LVM partition that precludes resizing with GParted or Fdisk? This isn't a dual boot computer. Just a standard Linux (Kubuntu) install that I can't manage to shrink. I'm using GParted 1.0.0. Thanks in advance.