Resize a partition that is using LVM

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I have a laptop that is currently running ParrotOS Security. The root partition is about 460G and I want to split it so I can dual-boot Ubuntu. However, when I try to resize the partition using the instructions from How can I resize an LVM partition? (i.e: physical volume) using the live version of Ubuntu, I get an error when I run e2fsck that says something along the lines of the selected parition is using an unknown meta-chsum, upgrade your e2fsck! I just downloaded the ISO from Ubuntu yesterday so I know it's an updated version. It's loaded on a bootable USB so I should be able to perform package upgrades, however when I try to run sudo apt-get upgrade util-linux I get an error that says dpkg exited with error code 1 Any thoughts?

EDIT: The exact error that I get when attempting to run e2fsck /dev/blah is

/dev/blah has unsupported feature(s): metadata_csum
e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck!

I get the same error when trying edit using system-config-lvm

Possible duplicate of How can I resize an LVM partition? (i.e: physical volume) — You'reAGitForNotUsingGit, Apr 10 '17 at 17:36
@AndroidDev I referenced that post in my question. I run into trouble when attempting that solution. — Brandon, Apr 10 '17 at 19:11
Did you try the second tool that references using system-config-lvm as well then? — Gansheim, Apr 10 '17 at 19:14
This might or might not obviate the problem, but it is possible to share an LVM volume group between multiple distributions; you'd need nothing but a small /boot partition outside of the LVM for each distribution. If you have sufficient free space outside of the LVM (~500 MiB) for a new Ubuntu /boot partition, then this may be the way to go. — Rod Smith, Apr 10 '17 at 20:14
@RodSmith thanks for the thought, but unfortunately the only unallocated space available on the disk is a little over 1 MiB. — Brandon, Apr 10 '17 at 23:59

Resize a partition that is using LVM

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