As you can see, the root partition is 99% used with a capacity of 6.7 GB. Written by Luke Arntz on December 7, 2017 Filed under ... partition number, and the partition type. Step 2: Unmount the Volume. The post describes how to reduce the space allocated to an root file system on a Linux Volume Manager (LVM) logical volume. Be sure to change the type to 8e before writing the changes to disk. Assuming your disk is /dev/sda and standard RHEL/CentOS partitioning: Extend partition. Active 8 months ago. fdisk /dev/sda. Verify if your server has XFS file system (you should see "xfs" in the Type column): # df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/cl-root xfs 143G 27G 117G 19% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 908M 0 908M 0% /dev tmpfs … Size of logical volume centos/root changed from 6.67 GiB (1707 extents) to 18.67 GiB (4779 extents). Use pvs and lvs commands to see your physical and logical volume names if you don't know them.

This guide will explain how to grow an XFS filesystem on VMWare Virtual Machine without a reboot. Enter d (delete) followed by 2 to delete the existing partition definition (partition 1 is usually /boot and partition 2 is usually the root partition). If you’re on a VMware machine, have a look at this guide to increase the block device, partition and LVM volume first: Increase A VMware Disk Size (VMDK) Formatted As Linux LVM without rebooting.Once you reach the resize2fs command, return here, as that only applies to EXT2/3/4. It is always a good idea to unmount the volume before we go ahead with extending the partition. In this command centos is the PV, root is the LV and /dev/sda2 is the partition that was extended. Increase/expand an XFS filesystem in RHEL 7 / CentOS 7. Extending LVM volume on CentOS 7 Posted on 10.10.2017 1 Comment Operating systems I had a lack of free disk space on root LVM volume on one of my test servers. scottro Forum Moderator Posts: 2453 Joined: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:18 pm Location: NYC. This requires you to be able to ssh into the instance using the root user account and that no services be running as users out of /home on the target machine. Now that we see the problem, the 20 GB server but the root partition is only 6.7 GB and it is full. I have a Centos 7 installed as a guest on Hyper-V and need to expand the disk space on centos root partition. Increase the size of the root partition in CentOS 7, RHEL 7 on ESXi 5.5 ... /dev/sda2 1026048 16777215 7875584 8e Linux LVM. Expanding a LVM logical volume This tip explains how to expand an existing logical volume by adding a new new physical volume to a volume group through LVM. 5 Steps to Extend a Linux LVM Volume. Partition the added disk with the type (8e) for LVM.