How to extend a logical volume and its filesystem online in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Issue
- What is the procedure to grow an existing filesystem based on Logical Volume?
- How can I extend my logical volume and the filesystem in the command line?
- How can I resize my Logical Volume and my filesystem together?
- I have an lvm device and have expanded my Volume Group but my filesystem is the same size. How do I grow my Logical Volume and filesystem?
- I have extended a logical volume using
lvextendwhich shows the extension in volume groupvgdisplaybutdfisn't reflecting the size, am I missing anything? - How do I grow an ext3/ext4/XFS filesystem on LVM?
- How do I increase my filesystem on the fly, without unmounting it ?
- We are using LVM for mounting the filesystem, how can we use the
lvextendcommand to extend the volume group and increase the filesystem size? - What are the steps to extend a filesystem after a LUN capacity has been extended?
- What is the procedure to increase the size of an LVM2 logical volume and resize its filesystem?
- I need to expand a filesystem created on LVM partition, does the filesystem need to be unmounted when expanding it or can I resize it online?
- How to grow an ext filesystem with
pvcreate,vgextend,lvextendandresize2fscommands - How to grow an XFS filesystem with
pvcreate,vgextend,lvextendandxfs_growfscommands - I have extended the logical volume size with
lvextendcommand but the size of the file system its not reflecting this change - The system needs more inodes
- How to increase the amount of available inodes
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
- Logical Volume Manager (LVM) 2
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