How can we increase or decrease the size of an LVM-based swap volume on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • How can we increase or decrease the size of an LVM-based swap volume?
  • How to resize lvm swap?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
  • Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
  • Swap volume which is based on a logical volume

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