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lvextend — Increase the size of a logical volume. See also: `lvm`. More information: <https://manned.org/lvexte

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Problem

How to use the lvextend command: Increase the size of a logical volume. See also: lvm. More information: <https://manned.org/lvextend>.

Solution

lvextend — Increase the size of a logical volume. See also: lvm. More information: <https://manned.org/lvextend>.

Increase a volume's size to 120 GB:
sudo lvextend {{[-L|--size]}} {{120G}} {{logical_volume}}


Increase a volume's size by 40 GB as well as the underlying filesystem:
sudo lvextend {{[-L|--size]}} +{{40G}} {{[-r|--resizefs]}} {{logical_volume}}


Increase a volume's size to 100% of the free physical volume space:
sudo lvextend {{[-l|--extents]}} +{{100}}%FREE {{logical_volume}}


Increase a volume's size to 100% of the free physical volume space and resize the underlying filesystem:
sudo lvextend {{[-l|--extents]}} +{{100}}%FREE {{[-r|--resizefs]}} {{logical_volume}}

Code Snippets

Increase a volume's size to 120 GB

sudo lvextend {{[-L|--size]}} {{120G}} {{logical_volume}}

Increase a volume's size by 40 GB as well as the underlying filesystem

sudo lvextend {{[-L|--size]}} +{{40G}} {{[-r|--resizefs]}} {{logical_volume}}

Increase a volume's size to 100% of the free physical volume space

sudo lvextend {{[-l|--extents]}} +{{100}}%FREE {{logical_volume}}

Increase a volume's size to 100% of the free physical volume space and resize the underlying filesystem

sudo lvextend {{[-l|--extents]}} +{{100}}%FREE {{[-r|--resizefs]}} {{logical_volume}}

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