Cannot resize a partition with Gparted below "Minimum size"

Question

I used gparted to resize a partition successfully, but it does not allow me to shrink it as much as I would actually like.

I think it's because of the Minimum size.

Is there a possibility to reduce the Minimum size value to shrink the partition further than currently allowed?

@Ferrybig:

@oldfred: sudo parted -L

@Tom Yan: It says: Failed to find physical volume "/dev/nvme0n1p3". Correct: I have LVM on LUKS. But I managed to reduce to Minimum size. You write: You might need to shrink the PV.... Can you provide a link or explain in detail. Thanks a lot

Answer 1

This probably indicates that there is data written near the end of the partition. You can attempt to defragment it using:

e4defrag -c /mounted/path

Replace /mounted/path with the mount point of /dev/nvme0n1p3.

As always, make sure to back up all your data before making any operation that will bring changes to your disk.