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How to recover data or mount a logical volume after resizing drive to less than size of physical volume

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Due to a series of mistakes i resized my drive to be smaller than the physical volume it contains. The drive has a physical volume at around 110Gib, a logical volume at 100Gib, all on a 99.4Gib drive. The actual data on the logical volume is only 50gb or so, but i cant resize anything because i cant mount anything due to this mishap and i need the data off the logical volume. Output of
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WARNING: Device /dev/sda3 has size of 208445799 sectors which is smaller than corresponding PV size of 230684672 sectors. Was device resized?
WARNING: One or more devices used as PVs in VG ubuntu-vg have changed sizes.
LV        VG        Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
ubuntu-lv ubuntu-vg -wi------- 100.00g
Output of
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WARNING: Device /dev/sda3 has size of 208445799 sectors which is smaller than corresponding PV size of 230684672 sectors. Was device resized?
WARNING: One or more devices used as PVs in VG ubuntu-vg have changed sizes.
PV         VG        Fmt  Attr PSize    PFree
/dev/sda3  ubuntu-vg lvm2 a--  <110.00g <10.00g
Output of
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WARNING: Device /dev/sda3 has size of 208445799 sectors which is smaller than corresponding PV size of 230684672 sectors. Was device resized?
WARNING: One or more devices used as PVs in VG ubuntu-vg have changed sizes.
VG        #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize    VFree
ubuntu-vg   1   1   0 wz--n- <110.00g <10.00g
Asked by Axell (1 rep)
Aug 6, 2025, 03:59 PM