Additional disk space is not showing up on Fog server

[Tom Elliott]

Did you expand the originating volume, or did you add a new HDD to the VM?

[sjensen]

@Tom-Elliott

1. i added more disk space from the hyper v console
2. booted into gparted live cd and extended the volumes.
3. rebooted

[Junkhacker]

@sjensen it might be easier to follow these instructions to resize your LVM, you’ve already done part of this, but i’m sure you can figure out what needs to be done yet. https://blog.vbonhomme.fr/extend-a-lvm-partition-after-increasing-its-virtual-disk-on-virtualbox/

[Wayne Workman]

@sjensen I’d also recommend against gparted in this particular case. To do what you need manually it’s only a couple standard linux commands.

[sjensen]

@Wayne-Workman it’s a little late for that Wayne. I’ve used Gparted already. It seemed like a good solution.

[sjensen]

@Junkhacker Would this work for a Hyper-v machine too?

[Junkhacker]

@sjensen your virtual machine doesn’t know it’s a virtual machine, so what hypervisor you’re using is irrelevant. everything in the steps past gparted (which you say you’ve already done) is relevant

[sjensen]

@Junkhacker Thank you for the link. If I understand this correctly, gparted resized the partition, now I have to go in and make changes so Ubuntu sees that I extended the hard drive space. Is basically what needs to happen? Please bare with me I am new to Linux, i’m still learning. Any advice is appreciated.

[Wayne Workman]

@sjensen If you run that list of commands again that I posted previously, we can see exactly how it is now and give you guidance on what to do.

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9636/additional-disk-space-is-not-showing-up-on-fog-server/11#

Just trying to help.

[sjensen]

@Junkhacker Thank that link worked

[Wayne Workman]

Well if it’s still exactly like how it was in the photos he posted, this command would allocate the free space available in the volume group ‘FOGserver-vg’ to the logical volume ‘root’

lvextend -l 100%FREE /dev/FOGserver-vg/root/

And then this command would then expand the file system on root

resize2fs /dev/FOGserver-vg/root

After that, a simple df -h should show the space is available at the / mount point.

[sjensen]

@Wayne-Workman Wayne thank you for the reply. I used the that Junkhacker posted. It worked very.
https://blog.vbonhomme.fr/extend-a-lvm-partition-after-increasing-its-virtual-disk-on-virtualbox/