Intro

I just did this on a vm on my proxmox system when I discovered I had run out of storage space.

Since I remembered the steps incorrectly, and realized I didn't have any notes on how to do this, I thought I'd note them down now, for later.

With no further ado, this is a quick and dirty how-to for extending a lvm.

 

Info gathering, current state

  1. Show current status with df:
    root@rear:/home# df -h 
    Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    udev                       210M     0  210M   0% /dev
    tmpfs                       49M  6.1M   43M  13% /run
    /dev/mapper/rear--vg-root  491G  491G     0 100% /
    tmpfs                      241M     0  241M   0% /dev/shm
    tmpfs                      5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
    tmpfs                      241M     0  241M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
    tmpfs                       49M     0   49M   0% /run/user/1000
  2. Run lvmdiskscan. Sdb is the new virtual disk I added before.
    root@rear:/home# lvmdiskscan
     /dev/rear-vg/root   [    <499.50 GiB]  
     /dev/sda1           [    <500.00 GiB] LVM physical volume
     /dev/rear-vg/swap_1 [     512.00 MiB]  
     /dev/sdb            [     500.00 GiB]  
     2 disks
     1 partition
     0 LVM physical volume whole disks
     1 LVM physical volume
  3. Show the current physical volumes.
    root@rear:/home/# pvdisplay 
     --- Physical volume ---
     PV Name               /dev/sda1
     VG Name               rear-vg
     PV Size               <500.00 GiB / not usable 2.00 MiB
     Allocatable           yes (but full)
     PE Size               4.00 MiB
     Total PE              127999
     Free PE               0
     Allocated PE          127999
     PV UUID               1M8upJ-yDYM-BZlD-dY9v-n9vO-oJbB-bJZfCT
  4. Show the logical volume info:
    root@rear:/home/# lvdisplay
    --- Logical volume ---
     LV Path                /dev/rear-vg/root
     LV Name                root
     VG Name                rear-vg
     LV UUID                pZN6cI-KpB5-5I04-zNMB-LOcU-cEQL-dG6CUy
     LV Write Access        read/write
     LV Creation host, time rear, 2020-04-16 15:25:12 +0200
     LV Status              available
     # open                 1
     LV Size                <499.50 GiB
     Current LE             127871
     Segments               1
     Allocation             inherit
     Read ahead sectors     auto
     - currently set to     256
     Block device           253:0

     --- Logical volume ---
     LV Path                /dev/rear-vg/swap_1
     LV Name                swap_1
     VG Name                rear-vg
     LV UUID                8dW0ke-Szeh-iHSN-5GY3-efOB-uRjJ-m9EnHK
     LV Write Access        read/write
     LV Creation host, time rear, 2020-04-16 15:25:12 +0200
     LV Status              available
     # open                 2
     LV Size                512.00 MiB
     Current LE             128
     Segments               1
     Allocation             inherit
     Read ahead sectors     auto
     - currently set to     256
     Block device           253:1
  5. So I have two volumes. We'll need this info for later, when we're extending the root-volume.
    /dev/rear-vg/root
    /dev/rear-vg/swap_1
  6. Running fdisk shows me the new disk as /dev/sdb.
    root@rear:/home# fdisk -l 
    ...
    Disk /dev/sdb: 500 GiB, 536870912000 bytes, 1048576000 sectors
    Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disklabel type: gpt
    Disk identifier: 2A78D1E2-5DE5-4394-ACB3-D58BBF4C1705


 

Guide

  1. Create a new physical volume on the new drive.
    For partitiontioning this new drive, see Partitioning notes.
    The warning message is because I remembered the procedure wrongly and started out with creating a new partiontion on the new disk. This is not needed, so we overwrite it.
    root@rear:/home/# pvcreate /dev/sdb1
    WARNING: Device for PV tkfk9p-sSl8-c9Ka-SBaX-INta-Q9vl-SiMD8L not found or rejected by a filter.
    WARNING: ext4 signature detected on /dev/sdb1 at offset 1080. Wipe it? [y/n]: y
     Wiping ext4 signature on /dev/sdb1.
     Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created.
  2. List the new volume.
    root@rear:/home/# lvmdiskscan -l 
     WARNING: only considering LVM devices
     /dev/sda1           [    <500.00 GiB] LVM physical volume
     /dev/sdb1           [    <500.00 GiB] LVM physical volume
     0 LVM physical volume whole disks
     2 LVM physical volumes
  3.  Add the new physical volume to the logical volume.
    root@rear:/home# vgextend rear-vg /dev/sdb1  
     Volume group "rear-vg" successfully extended
  4. Now we have more disk in the volume group, but we also need to extend the volume to the new disk. Consider it sort of as making the new area available for use.
    We will use all of the available new space for extension.
    root@rear:/home# lvm lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/rear-vg/root
     Size of logical volume rear-vg/root changed from <499.50 GiB (127871 extents) to 999.49 GiB (255870 extents).
     Logical volume rear-vg/root successfully resized.
  5. Before the new storage will be available for us, we need to do a last step.
    We need to update the filesystem metadata to make it aware or the newly added storage space.
    root@rear:/home# df -h 
    Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on 
    udev                       210M     0  210M   0% /dev
    tmpfs                       49M  1.3M   47M   3% /run
    /dev/mapper/rear--vg-root  491G  424G   43G  91% /
    tmpfs                      241M     0  241M   0% /dev/shm
    tmpfs                      5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock 
    tmpfs                      241M     0  241M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
    tmpfs                       49M     0   49M   0% /run/user/1000 

    root@rear:/home# resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/rear--vg-root 
    resize2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
    Filesystem at /dev/mapper/rear--vg-root is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
    old_desc_blocks = 63, new_desc_blocks = 125
    The filesystem on /dev/mapper/rear--vg-root is now 262010880 (4k) blocks long. 

    root@rear:/home# df -h
    Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    udev                       210M     0  210M   0% /dev
    tmpfs                       49M  1.3M   47M   3% /run 
    /dev/mapper/rear--vg-root  983G  424G  515G  46% / 
    tmpfs                      241M     0  241M   0% /dev/shm 
    tmpfs                      5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock 
    tmpfs                      241M     0  241M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup 
    tmpfs                       49M     0   49M   0% /run/user/1000
  6. We're done.

 

LVM VM disk resizing in Proxmox

See this article; Proxmox notes.

 



Sources

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-lvm-to-manage-storage-devices-on-ubuntu-18-04

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-add-disk-to-lvm-volume-on-linux-to-increase-size-of-pool/

https://www.tecmint.com/add-new-disks-using-lvm-to-linux/

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/416886/why-do-i-need-to-do-resize2fs-after-lvextend

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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