This article walks through expanding a Linux server’s root filesystem by checking disk usage, adding a new disk, creating a physical volume, extending the volume group and logical volume, and resizing the XFS filesystem, with commands and screenshots for each step.
This guide walks you through checking disk usage, adding a new disk, creating a physical volume, extending the volume group and logical volume, and finally growing the XFS filesystem to successfully enlarge the Linux root partition.
Learn step‑by‑step how to enlarge a Linux root filesystem using LVM commands—checking disk usage, creating a physical volume, extending the volume group and logical volume, and resizing the XFS filesystem—complete with command examples and verification screenshots.
This guide walks you through checking the current XFS root size, enlarging the virtual disk in VMware, installing the growpart utility, extending the root partition, resizing the XFS filesystem with xfs_growfs, and verifying the new 40 GB capacity, while noting important constraints such as the need for no following partitions.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to check current disk usage, add a 60 GB disk, create a physical volume, extend the volume group and logical volume, resize the filesystem, and verify the root partition expansion on a CentOS 7 server.
This guide walks you through booting into rescue mode, checking the root filesystem, deleting and recreating the root partition with fdisk, and resizing the filesystem with resize2fs to reclaim hundreds of megabytes without reinstalling Linux.
