I have a Fedora 40 server with a big /data partition and a full root partition.
Booted into GParted and this is the picture
I then went ahead to expand /dev/sda3 after moving the /dev/sda4 partition
Next I extended the Logical Volume: lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/fedora_acer--bkp--server-root. I got a message that the volume has been extended to the max size and when I run vgdisplay I see the size expanded; i.e.
root@acer-bkp-server: vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name fedora_acer-bkp-server
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 6
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 1
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 206.05 GiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 52749
Alloc PE / Size 8960 / 35.00 GiB
Free PE / Size 43789 / 171.05 GiB
VG UUID 4yZeFq-jTkd-OfuC-651g-ihg1-d3C1-RYUHad
Next I resized the filesystem via xfs_growfs /dev/mapper/fedora_acer--bkp--server-root
Finally check the size of the root partition via df-h but it still reports the initial size and I’m not clear why xfs_grow doesn’t work
Unless I made any mistakes above the only thing I could think of is that the xfs_growfs command doesn’t work properly because the root partition is full.
Any ideas?
