|{{Admon/note[[Image:ssm3.png|LVM Safeguards When Reducing File System Sizethumb|In older versions of LVM, the system administrator had to be careful when reducing the size of Linux file-systems using LVM. This usually required to separate operations:<ul><li>Reducing the file-system to make room (''resize2fs'')</li><li>Reduce the logical volume by using right|200px|Issue the '''lvreducessm list''' command</li></ul>This used to be performed to prevent a catastrophic loss of data if the logical volume was resize smaller than the available space on confirm the file-system.<br>The newer LVM commands have "safeguards" (eg. option '''-r'increase for your '' to prevent destroying the file-system (thus making the 'centos2'resize2fs'' command <u>obsolete</u>)VM. '''|}}]]