Expanding Volumes
Provision additional storage on Ubuntu
At some point, you’re going to run out of space and need to provision some additional storage.
Steps:
- Expand Volume Capacity
- Expand Partition to Volume Capacity
- Extend Filesystem to the size of partition
You’ll need to know a few things like:
What block devices are available?
lsblk
What filesystem am I using on a partition?
file -s /dev/sda1
lsblk -f
blkid
What is the current capacity of storage in the filesystem?
df -h
Grow the first partition to the size of the volume
growpart /dev/sda 1
Resize the filesystem to the size of the partition
command specific to filesystem used, this for ext
resize2fs /dev/sda1
List disk usage -s summarize of a user
du -hs /home/marcload