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How come lvextend allocates less than the specified amount of space?

I am trying to extend a volume, let's call it /dev/vol1. I see the initial volume size is 500MB when I call: df --block-size=M /dev/vol1 then to extend it 100MB more I call: lvextend -L+100M ...
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How much can the space allocated for an LVM snapshot be reduced?

I created an LVM snapshot, then I modified the original logical volume, and now I see that I probably allocated too much space to hold the snapshot. And I want to reclaim some free space by reducing ...
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Why is there a mismatch between size reported by LVM and the size reported by df -h?

I'm new to LVM and have been very confused by this: I am transfering a large file to a partition that I thought had about 1.5 terabytes of space on it. Near the end of the transfer, rsync exits with ...