|{{Admon/note|LVM Safeguards When Reducing File System Size|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 the '''lvreduce''' command</li></ul><br><br>This used to be performed to prevent a catastrophic loss of data if the logical volume was resize smaller than the available space on the file-system.<br><br>The newer LVM commands have "safeguards" to prevent destroying the file-system (thus making the '''resize2fs''' command <u>obsolete</u>). '''|}}