How to resize a logical volume with 4 simple LVM commands
1st step
- Increase/resize disque from GUI console of your hypervisor
2nd step
Extend physical drive partition check free space: sudo fdisk -l
- Extend physical drive partition: growpart /dev/sda 3
- See phisical drive: pvdisplay
- Instruct LVM that disk size has changed: sudo pvresize /dev/sda3
- Check physical drive if has changed: pvdisplay
3rd step
Extend Logical volume
- View starting LV: sudo lvdisplay
- Resize LV: sudo lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv
- View changed LV: sudo lvdisplay
4th step
- Resize Filesystem: resize2fs /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv
- Confirm results: fdisk -l