Preliminary note: this post was initially published on LinuxFr.org where readers have provided many good comments. If you ever end up in the same situation as described below have a look at tools like sgdisk, pvresize, lvresize, pvmove. I was minding my own business when suddenly there wasn’t so much free space on the household’s NAS. We’ve been trying to scrap a gigabyte here and there since months and the situation wasn’t going any better.
