Filesystem size remains same after detaching one disk from a volume group

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When a physical volume is removed from a LVM volume group (VG), it does not affect to the output of df.
  • All data seems to be intact.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8

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