@marcinozga said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

I see few issues above.

LVM is not a filesystem. You don't need to shutdown VM to extend its disk size. You don't need to boot from any installer CD to resize partitions, you can do it from within live system with fdisk, although if you have some unusual partition layout you're probably better off doing it offline. You can also extend filesystem on a live system, no need for shutdown.

correct, didn't think properly when I wrote that. Logical volumes can be put into logical groups that could contain pools of hdd's that can be sees as one, can also move space around easier and have snapshots. I had errors when trying to write the new partition layout hence why I used a live CD. Probably could of looked into it more but didn't want to spend forever on it or mess up any partition data.

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

@travisdh1 said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

I'm late to the party. But the root is HUGE for Linux. We normally use 12GB. 20GB is the largest I would use. Why are you extending that? What's the goal in having the root be so large?

Whoever first set it up (it wasn't @DustinB3403), just dropped everything onto the root partition. Against every best practice ever written/known for Unix/Linux.

Still, that doesn't create a need for expanding the root in most cases.

If I would have known this before helping to fix a broken system... hindsight sadly.