Not using Ubuntu often, I found recently that the way of expanding disks has changed or I forgot how it was.
After adding storage to your disk, open the terminal as root:
This will rescan the disk
echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/rescan
(note sda as main disk)
cfdisk
If cfdisk doesn’t show the new added storage, use this guide.
This will list the partitions.
Highlighted, the partition we want to expand.
Hit right and select Resize.
Accept the new disk value. Then select Write, and accept the changes.
Type
fdisk -l
to check if the disk has its new size:
Execute parted
Resize the partition:
pvresize /dev/sda3
Extend the partition:
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv
Resize to finish the expansion:
resize2fs /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv
Now, doing a df -h will show the new extra space:
