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Re: Extending Debian partition under VMware



Le 19/11/2016 à 11:28, Jorge Expósito a écrit :
I've extended the virtual drive on VMware from 7 Gb to 8 Gb.
Rebooted my guest Debian with Gparted and extended the drive with the 1
extra Gb successfuly.
Rebooting again and starting my virtualized Debian I make a  fdisk -l and
it seems that the extra Gb is actually there.

Device     Boot  Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *      2048   499711   497664  243M 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       501758 16777215 16275458  7,8G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       501760 16777215 16275456  7,8G 8e Linux LVM

But if I run df -h it seems that it is not.

S.ficheros     Tamaño Usados  Disp Uso% Montado en
/dev/dm-0        6,3G   4,8G  1,1G  82% /
(...)
What's the problem?

The problem is that the installation uses LVM. At best, you only extended the "physical volume" (LVM container) in /dev/sda5. At worst you only extended the partition /dev/sda5.

Steps :

1) Extend the PV to the new partition size (will do nothing if not needed) :

pvresize /dev/sda5

2) Check available space in the "volume group" :

vgscan

3) Display "logical volumes" :

lvscan

4) Extend logical volume(s) as desired (assuming extN) :

lvextend -L <size> /dev/<vg>/<lv>

5) Resize filesystem(s) :

resize2fs /dev/<vg>/<lv>


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