{"id":523,"date":"2015-12-14T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2016-01-24T22:19:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T20:19:31","slug":"how-to-resize-linux-logical-volume-lvm-in-a-virtualbox-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"How to resize linux logical volume (lvm) in a virtualbox vm"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was installed Fedora VM in to 8 GB Virtual Disk (vdi) but now I need to resize disk to 16 GB<\/p>\n

VBoxManage modifyhd \u201cD:\\VirtualBox VMs\\Fedora\\Fedora.vdi\u201d \u2013resize\u00a016384<\/p>\n

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Now the linux part.<\/p>\n

You’d have to unmount it to shrink it (which requires a LiveCD \/ Rescue Mode.)<\/p>\n

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  1. pvresize \/dev\/sda2<\/code> (assuming your LVM partition is sda2<\/code>. Replace as required.)<\/li>\n
  2. lvextend \/dev\/mapper\/root -l+100%FREE\u00a0<\/code> (or, whatever your root logical volume is called.)<\/li>\n
  3. resize2fs \/dev\/mapper\/root<\/code> (assuming ext2\/3\/4)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I was installed Fedora VM in to 8 GB Virtual Disk (vdi) but now I need to resize disk to 16 GB VBoxManage modifyhd \u201cD:\\VirtualBox VMs\\Fedora\\Fedora.vdi\u201d \u2013resize\u00a016384   Now the linux part. You’d have to unmount it to shrink it (which requires a LiveCD \/ Rescue Mode.) pvresize \/dev\/sda2 (assuming your LVM partition is sda2. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ersinakyuz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}