LVM you can increase / decrease size without any issue.
But it is important you do it in proper steps.
pvcreate /dev/xvdf1 pvdisplay /dev/xvdf1 vgcreate -s 16M vg0 /dev/xvdf1 vgdisplay /dev/xvdf vgdisplay vg0 lvcreate -n lv-vol001 vg0 lvcreate --help lvcreate -A n -L 24.5G -n lv-vol001 vg0 mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg0/lv-vol001
# Rescan the machine if not found. echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan # Cont. fdisk /dev/xvdk ## Comment "Specify Type 8e by option t" mkfs.ext3 /dev/xvdk1 pvcreate /dev/xvdk1 vgextend vg0 /dev/xvdk1 lvextend -L 300G /dev/vg0/lv-vol001 OR lvextend -L+99.91G /dev/vg0/lv-vol001 OR lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/vg0/lv-vol001 resize2fs /dev/vg0/lv-vol001
umount /home e2fsck -y /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 resize2fs -f /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 1536M lvreduce -L-512M /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 mount /home
umount /opt/ e2fsck -y /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 lvextend -L+512M /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 OR lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 mount /opt
#rescan the device echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_device/1\:0\:0\:0/device/rescan #list devices and confirm you are going to update which drive. fdisk -l ### Delete and recreate the partition 'make sure start block is the same' fdisk /dev/sda ## Comment "Specify Type 8e by option t" ### Reprobe partition table. partprobe -s mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda1 lvdisplay vgdisplay lvextend -l+1599 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 df -kh vgdisplay lvdisplay resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 df -kh