Louisiana VMware Users Group Extending “/” root partition in Linux VM with LVM We will be extending the “/” partition from 17GB to ~27 GB – adding 10GB to “/” The VM HD1 = 36 GB *** Make sure you perform FULL backups of your system before doing this procedure *** #1) Collect information about your current environment: “df –h” --- Displays your current disk partition size: [root@localhost lvmlog]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 17G 2.5G 13G 17% / /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03 713M 162M 515M 24% /tmp /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 2.0G 72M 1.8G 4% /var/log /dev/sda1 99M 19M 76M 20% /boot tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev/shm “pvdisplay” --- Displays attributes of the physical LVM volume. Note PVSIZE and Free PE (Phyical Extents) [root@localhost lvmlog]# pvdisplay /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found *** This is OK, its just the CDROM. *** --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda2 VG Name VolGroup00 PV Size 35.90 GB / not usable 22.10 MB Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 1148 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 1148 PV UUID sS7pDq-F8b0-oaU3-noLN-7dIv-lWSz-njgEFE WEBSITE: http://www.lavmug.org TWITTER: http://twitter.com/lavmug ʼLouisiana VMware Users Group ...