Sometimes it can be prudent to reduce swap space after installation. For example, say you downgraded the amount of RAM in your system from 1 GB to 512 MB, but there is 2 GB of swap space still assigned. It might be advantageous to reduce the amount of swap space to 1 GB, since the larger 2 GB could be wasting disk space. You have three options: remove an entire LVM2 logical volume used for swap , remove a swap file , or reduce swap space on an existing LVM2 logical volume .
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