I have a Fedora 36 virtual machine. This machine is running on VMWare and it has Hard Disk (SCSI) 60GB in VMWare available to it.
Inside Fedora, when I open up "Disk Utility", there is the top device on the left menu called /dev/sda which is listed as 64GB MBR that has:
- Filesystem, Partition 1, 1.1 GB Ext4 - /dev/sda1 - says "mounted at /boot"
- Partition 2, 63 GB, LVM2 PV - /dev/sda2 - doesn't say where it's mounted
Underneath there, I have the optical drive listed, and underneath that are 3 more "yellow" disks:
38 GB Block Device - /dev/fedora_localhost-live/root, mounted at Filesystem Root, 38GB used, 15GB free
6.4GB Block Device - /dev/fedora_localhost-live/swap
19GB Block Device - /dev/fedora_localhost-live/home 19GB/2.7GB Free
First of all, I am confused because I do not know what the above three items actually are here. Clearly, they are actually all part of the first-listed "Hard Disk" which was 64GB because thats all this machine has access too. But what I don't understand is that Hard Disk only had 2 partitions: one is near 1GB and the remaining 63GB in the second partition. So what are these "Block Devices?" They also have Volumes. I know what block devices are in principle, I just don't understand the hierarchy/structure Fedora is displaying in this instance.
My second, and primary question is: I am running out of space on my 19GB Block Device which stores my Home data; I need to fix this somehow or I won't be able to continue to work on this machine. How can I do this with this configuration? I have the resources to add more space at the VMWare level if needed.
Updating with requested info:
mount
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,seclabel,size=4096k,nr_inodes=1048576,mode=755,inode64)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,seclabel,inode64)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,seclabel,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,seclabel,size=3269124k,nr_inodes=819200,mode=755,inode64)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel)
bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel)
selinuxfs on /sys/fs/selinux type selinuxfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=35,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=1853)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,pagesize=2M)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel)
tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
vmware-vmblock on /run/vmblock-fuse type fuse.vmware-vmblock (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,seclabel,nr_inodes=1048576,inode64)
/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-home on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,size=1634560k,nr_inodes=408640,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
portal on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
findmnt
TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
/ /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root ext4 rw,relatime,seclabel
├─/proc proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ └─/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc systemd-1 autofs rw,relatime,fd=35,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=1853
├─/sys sysfs sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel
│ ├─/sys/kernel/security securityfs securityfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup cgroup2 cgroup2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot
│ ├─/sys/fs/pstore pstore pstore rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel
│ ├─/sys/fs/bpf bpf bpf rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700
│ ├─/sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs selinuxfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/kernel/debug debugfs debugfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel
│ ├─/sys/kernel/tracing tracefs tracefs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel
│ ├─/sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl fusectl rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ └─/sys/kernel/config configfs configfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
├─/dev devtmpfs devtmpfs rw,nosuid,seclabel,size=4096k,nr_inodes=1048576,mode=755,inode64
│ ├─/dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,seclabel,inode64
│ ├─/dev/pts devpts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,seclabel,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000
│ ├─/dev/mqueue mqueue mqueue rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel
│ └─/dev/hugepages hugetlbfs hugetlbfs rw,relatime,seclabel,pagesize=2M
├─/run tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,seclabel,size=3269124k,nr_inodes=819200,mode=755,inode64
│ ├─/run/vmblock-fuse vmware-vmblock fuse.vmware-vmblock rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other
│ └─/run/user/1000 tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,size=1634560k,nr_inodes=408640,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64
│ ├─/run/user/1000/gvfs gvfsd-fuse fuse.gvfsd-fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000
│ └─/run/user/1000/doc portal fuse.portal rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000
├─/tmp tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,seclabel,nr_inodes=1048576,inode64
├─/home /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-home ext4 rw,relatime,seclabel
├─/boot /dev/sda1 ext4 rw,relatime,seclabel
└─/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs sunrpc rpc_pipefs rw,relatime
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 60 GiB, 64424509440 bytes, 125829120 sectors
Disk model: VMware Virtual S
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x75e14e6f
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 2099199 2097152 1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2099200 125829119 123729920 59G 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root: 35.61 GiB, 38235275264 bytes, 74678272 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-swap: 6 GiB, 6442450944 bytes, 12582912 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/zram0: 8 GiB, 8589934592 bytes, 2097152 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-home: 17.39 GiB, 18668847104 bytes, 36462592 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
mount
,findmnt
andfdsik -l
. It would give a more precise understanding of what is going on on your machine.