Ubuntu; Disk size?

[Baessens]

Hi

Probably some mistake on my part.

Ubuntu says I only have 3.9GB available, but the virtual disk i made is 200GB, Why am i not seeing this?
(does it have something to do with me enabling VLM when installing the OS?
Does it auto-expand or something?

From my Hyper-v:

This is Ubuntu 18.4 LTS, new install.

Thanks in advance.

[george1421]

@baessens 4GB is really small for a linux root partition. I an surprised your server runs.

I have a solution for what you want, but it might not sound easy to you.

1. Create a new virtual disk and connect it to your FOG server. This will be your FOG Images disk. Make it what ever size you need.
2. Partition it using a standard partition format (no lvm).
3. Format the disk with xfs or ext4 format.

This above configuration will allow you to easily grow the disk when/if you need more space. LVM adds in a layer of complexity to expand your disk.

Now what you will do is temporarily mount this new disk, like to /mnt/images then migrate everything in /images to /mnt/images making /images empty.

Then unmount /mnt/images

Lastly mount the new disk to the /images directory and update fstab to mount that disk on every reboot.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Baessens Please as well run the following commands (as root) and post output here. Maybe we can find out where your disk space is “used”.

fdisk -l /dev/sda
lsblk
lvscan
vgscan
pvscan

[Quazz]

@baessens I’m going to take a guess, but is the disk a “dynamic virtual disk” by any chance?

[Baessens]

@george1421 It worked. Thanks !