How to Increase Root Partition Capacity in Existing LVM Based Root Partition (Doc ID 2750231.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 12, 2021

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Goal

Existing system has an LVM based root filesystem and low disk space.
The goal is to increase available space in the root partition, by adding a new disk to the instance.

# df -h
Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
....
/dev/mapper/vg_main-lv_root  7.5G  7.3G  265M  97% /  <<<<<<<
/dev/xvdb1                   497M  213M  284M  43% /boot
.....
 

Solution

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