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After expanding the size of the disk on my Proxmox hypervisor from 8GB to 18GB I am trying to see this new space on my Ubuntu 20.04 VM: enter image description here

These are the commands I'd run on the VM

# Physical volume is called /dev/sda3
sudo pvs

# resize the Physical Volume (PV)
sudo pvresize /dev/sda3

# root logical volume is
df -h

# expand the logical volume
sudo lvextend -r -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv

# resize my number 3 partition (this gave me 17GB on sda3)
sudo growpart /dev/sda 3

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I can see it on the sda3 partition!

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Want to see the 18GB on /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/583544 - am following these instructions

Any pointers would be great!

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    Grow the filesystem too Mar 29, 2022 at 13:53
  • I think the order of the commands was wrong. It should be growpart -> pvresize -> lvextend. Mar 29, 2022 at 14:03
  • Thanks both - have added an answer below. Mar 30, 2022 at 9:13

2 Answers 2

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https://packetpushers.net/ubuntu-extend-your-default-lvm-space/ was the article which helped me the most.

In summary

# allocate more space on hypervisor

# make the partition see the space (dev/sda3, Resize, Write, quit)
sudo cfdisk

# extend the physical volume from the partition
sudo pvresize /dev/sda3

# extend LV to use up all space from VG
sudo lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv

# resize file system
sudo resize2fs /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv

# check can see the space on filesystem
df -h

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Do the Following to Increase your size.

  • Increase/resize disque from GUI console
  • sudo fdisk -l <-- Look for Linux Partion
  • run: growpart /dev/sda 3 (Extend physical drive partition )
  • sudo pvresize /dev/sda3 (Instruct LVM that disk size has changed)
  • lvdisplay (# Find Entry with starting LV)
  • sudo lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv ( # Resize LV)
  • resize2fs /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv

PROFIT!

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