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How do I add disk space to CentOS 7?
Increase/expand an XFS filesystem in RHEL 7 / CentOS 7
- First, you need to increase the disk’s size in your vSphere Client or through the CLI. This will increase the “hardware” disk that your Virtual Machine can see.
- Then, you need to utilize that extra space by partitioning it.
Can you resize partitions?
Cut a part of the current partition to be a new one Begin -> Right click Computer -> Manage. Locate Disk Management under Store on the left, and click to select Disk Management. Right click the partition you want to cut, and choose Shrink Volume. Tune a size on the right of Enter the amount of space to shrink.
How to resize a disk in CentOS 7?
Space utilisation as following: 3) Create a new LVM partition including the extended new size You will be prompted for the first and last sector, accept the default settings (type enter) and it will automatically grab all the available extra space 4) Set the new partition to be of type 8e (Linux LVM)
How to resize the root partition in Linux?
Now you can reboot your Linux server to make sure everything is OK and resize primary partition was successful. Similar to parted command, you can also use fdisk utility to resize primary partition and extend non lvm root partition. Now as you see my existing root partition /dev/sda2 size is ~10G.
How to extend a partition with unallocated space CentOS 7?
In this command centos is the PV, root is the LV and /dev/sda2 is the partition that was extended. Use pvs and lvs commands to see your physical and logical volume names if you don’t know them. The -r option in this command resizes the filesystem appropriately so you don’t have to call resize2fs or xfs_growfs separately.
How to resize root LVM in CentOS 7?
5 easy steps to resize root LVM partition in RHEL/CentOS 7/8 Linux Step 1: Backup your data (Optional but recommended). Since you plan to shrink root LVM partition it is important that… Step 2: Boot into rescue mode. You cannot shrink root LVM partition online without reboot. Also you will need