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Extending/resizing a logical volume file system

In my infinite wisdom, I recently decided to “Just add more disk” to address a problem I was having with garbage collection. I wanted to add another 16GB of storage to my LVM filesystem to just stop my monitoring from carrying on about there being <20% available. Plus, the microk8s garbage collection was being garbage.

I’m using proxmox as my...

How-To extend a Logical Volume using LVM on Linux

While not a difficult process, it’s not the easiest of things to do either. Logical Volume Manager (LVM) lives up to *NIX’s user friendly mantra - “UNIX is user friendly, it’s just picky about who it’s friends are”.

Because LVM is actually really powerful and flexible in managing your storage, this inherently means complexity maintaining/controlling LVM.

The basic process to...