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I'm trying to expand my lvm partition on Ubuntu 16.04, but

lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/Server0-vg/root 

shows

New size (3861 extents) matches existing size (3861 extents) Run `lvextend --help' for more information. 

My lvm partition is /dev/sda5 and it is in /dev/sda2 - both are 159GB. lvdisplay shows:

--- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/Server0-vg/root LV Name root VG Name Server0-vg LV UUID fxh0JM-oKQM-nIrj-c5S0-Tlw6-GGKX-2vcZY8 LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time Server0, 2004-11-29 01:15:23 +0100 LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 15,08 GiB Current LE 3861 Segments 2 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 252:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/Server0-vg/swap_1 LV Name swap_1 VG Name Server0-vg LV UUID ZxV31F-BLza-3QaB-awXX-3IBt-SvzA-Lo2RAj LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time Server0, 2004-11-29 01:15:24 +0100 LV Status available # open 2 LV Size 508,00 MiB Current LE 127 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 252:1 

(If someone not get, i want to expand /dev/Server0-vg/root to 159gb)

df -h shows:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 737M 0 737M 0% /dev tmpfs 151M 5,1M 146M 4% /run /dev/mapper/Server0--vg-root 15G 6,7G 7,3G 48% / tmpfs 754M 0 754M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 754M 0 754M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda1 472M 453M 0 100% /boot tmpfs 100K 0 100K 0% /run/lxcfs/controllers tmpfs 151M 0 151M 0% /run/user/1000 

'print' in parted shows:

Model: ATA WDC WD1600BB-56R (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 160GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 512MB 511MB primary ext2 boot 2 513MB 160GB 159GB extended 5 513MB 160GB 159GB logical lvm 

Result of sudo vgdisplay:

--- Volume group --- VG Name Server0-vg System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 4 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 2 Open LV 2 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 15,58 GiB PE Size 4,00 MiB Total PE 3988 Alloc PE / Size 3988 / 15,58 GiB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID 302ela-v51W-hM2T-zjdv-8QtK-ZFBc-SW1D5Y 

Result of sudo pvdisplay:

--- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda5 VG Name Server0-vg PV Size 15,58 GiB / not usable 4,00 MiB Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size 4,00 MiB Total PE 3988 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 3988 PV UUID 6j391r-dL9l-8Rw8-kGt4-Ewxg-NiyM-rjzggr 
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  • Please add the output of sudo pvdisplayand sudo vgdisplay. You first might have to increase the volume group first. Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 15:07
  • Added. (15 characters minimum..) Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 15:13
  • Physical Volume (PV) is still 15 Gb, you have to pvresize /dev/sda first. Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 15:21

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As your Physical volume only is of size 15,58 GiB, the Volume groupand thus the Logical Volumecannot be larger.

First you have to resize the physical volume:

sudo pvresize /dev/sda5 

(see man pvresize for options). If you do not want it to resize to the max, use option --setphysicalvolumesize.

Now again look at vgdisplayto see if the volume group has been extended as well.

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