How to decrease /home and increase / when both are EXT* filesystems on LVM

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Issue

  • How to assign free space from one EXT* filesystem to another which are on LVM (same VG)?
  • How to decrease /home and increase / when both are EXT* filesystems on LVM

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • both /home and / are EXT* filesystems on an LVM logical volume

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