How to reduce the size of a LVM Thin Pool?

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Issue

  • Having a LVM Thin Provisioned Pool of size X, we want to reduce it to size Y; where X>Y.
  • Getting error:
  Thin pool volumes VG/thinpool_tdata cannot be reduced in size yet.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

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