[PLUG] 9 Tb only allocated 200 Gb

Chuck Hast wchast at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 18:19:07 UTC 2020


Going to look at it tonight but that looks logical. And it follows
the thread I was picking up in the sequence of commands.



On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:21 PM David Bridges <david at kisbdnb.info> wrote:

> On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 10:02 -0700, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
> > Could you boot Knoppix on the box and expand the partition with
> > gparted?
> >
> > Btw: output from: fdisk -l + /etc/fstab would be more useful than df
>
> The space did actually get allocated but only to ubuntu-vg (the volume
> group)
>
> > VG Size               9.09 TiB
> >   PE Size               4.00 MiB
> >   Total PE              2383615
> >   Alloc PE / Size       51200 / 200.00 GiB
> >   Free  PE / Size       2332415 / <8.90 TiB
>
>
> The logical volume (ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv) was only allocated a small
> portion of the space.
>
> gparted, well any partitioning tool is not what you need here, you just
> need to extend the logical volume and then resize the file system.
>
> Resizing the logical volume and resizing the file system can be done
> while the file system is mounted.  The commands below are examples of
> how you can do this.
>
> lvextend -l +2332415 /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv
>
> The command above will use up the rest of the free PE's (physical
> extents)  Instead of using the -l you can use -L and specify a specific
> amount of disk space instead of the number of extents to extend the
> logical volume by.
>
> man lvextend is your friend.
>
>
> Once the logical volume has been extended you can then resize the file
> system using the following command.
>
> resize2fs -F -f /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv
>
> The command above assumes an ext2/ext3/ext4 file system.  If your file
> system is something else you would need to use the appropriate commands
> to resize it.
>
> man resize2fs is also your friend.
>
> --
> David
>
>
> > -T
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 06:22 Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Folks,
> > > I just setup a Zoneminder server the machine has 9 Tb of
> > > drive but when I did the Ubuntu server setup it only allocated
> > > 200Gb. Here are some numbers:
> > >
> > > root at komodo:/home/kp4djt# df
> > > Filesystem                        1K-blocks     Used Available Use%
> > > Mounted
> > > on
> > > udev                               18430452        0  18430452   0%
> > > /dev
> > > tmpfs                               3694824     1444   3693380   1%
> > > /run
> > > /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 205375464 11628640 183244680   6%
> > > /
> > > tmpfs                              18474116  2222680  16251436  13%
> > > /dev/shm
> > > tmpfs                                  5120        0      5120   0%
> > > /run/lock
> > > tmpfs                              18474116        0  18474116   0%
> > > /sys/fs/cgroup
> > > /dev/sda2                            999320   106304    824204  12%
> > > /boot
> > > /dev/sda1                            523248     7956    515292   2%
> > > /boot/efi
> > > /dev/loop1                            56320    56320         0 100%
> > > /snap/core18/1880
> > > /dev/loop0                            30720    30720         0 100%
> > > /snap/snapd/8542
> > > /dev/loop2                            73088    73088         0 100%
> > > /snap/lxd/16099
> > > tmpfs                               3694820        0   3694820   0%
> > > /run/user/1000
> > > /dev/loop3                            56704    56704         0 100%
> > > /snap/core18/1885
> > > /dev/loop4                            30720    30720         0 100%
> > > /snap/snapd/8790
> > > /dev/loop5                            72320    72320         0 100%
> > > /snap/lxd/16922
> > > root at komodo:/home/kp4djt#
> > > /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 205375464 11628640 183244680   6%
> > > /
> > > is the one of interest.
> > >
> > > Here is more info:
> > > root at komodo:/home/kp4djt# vgdisplay -v
> > >   --- Volume group ---
> > >   VG Name               ubuntu-vg
> > >   System ID
> > >   Format                lvm2
> > >   Metadata Areas        1
> > >   Metadata Sequence No  2
> > >   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               9.09 TiB
> > >   PE Size               4.00 MiB
> > >   Total PE              2383615
> > >   Alloc PE / Size       51200 / 200.00 GiB
> > >   Free  PE / Size       2332415 / <8.90 TiB
> > >   VG UUID               799iwc-0lYp-Mh3T-I5JO-lPoW-vodP-rUtr7C
> > >
> > > This is where the video from the Zoneminder cameras will
> > > be stored. I need to increase the size of the Alloc PE / Size
> > >  51200 / 200.00 GiB
> > > to access most if not all of the remaining  Free  PE / Size
> > >  2332415 / <8.90 TiB
> > >
> > > I am not sure how to go about this one but need to expand
> > > that to where it will not fill up with camera video.I really only
> > > need 2 Tb of the space but might as well use as much as
> > > possible due to where the cameras are located.
> > >
> > > I have looked at the documentation but not sure what I am
> > > doing as I have never had to do this. I really do not want to
> > > mess this ZM install up as it is working like clockwork, and
> > > I want to keep it that way.
> > >
> > > Any guidance?
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
> > > I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
> > > Ph 4:13 KJV
> > > Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece.
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Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Ph 4:13 KJV
Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece.
Fil 4:13 RVR1960



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