lvextend Command Examples

Increase the size of a logical volume. See also: lvm. More information: https://manned.org/lvextend.8.

• Increase a volume's size to 120 GB:

lvextend {{[-L|--size]}} {{120G}} {{logical_volume}}

• Increase a volume's size by 40 GB as well as the underlying filesystem:

lvextend {{[-L|--size]}} +{{40G}} {{[-r|--resizefs]}} {{logical_volume}}

• Increase a volume's size to 100% of the free physical volume space:

lvextend {{[-L|--size]}} +{{100}}%FREE {{logical_volume}}