Ubuntu 12 Server messing up my hard disk
- by Jeroen Jacobs
I'm installing Ubuntu server on a disk with 12GB available. During the setup, I choose the default LVM-based partition layout.
However for some reason, Ubuntu decides that it only wants to use 4GB of this disk. How do I reclaim the remaining space of the hard disk? "lvextent" doesn't work btw...
output of df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root 4.3G 3.4G 754M 82% /
udev 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 756K 1.6G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /run/shm
/dev/sda1 228M 25M 192M 12% /boot
output of pvdisplay:
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda5
VG Name ubuntu
PV Size 12.32 GiB / not usable 2.00 MiB
Allocatable yes
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 3154
Free PE 8
Allocated PE 3146
PV UUID dD06RZ-kGcL-1tTX-Ruds-XIDG-ssMd-FIUkzZ
my partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 501758 26343423 12920833 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 501760 26343423 12920832 8e Linux LVM
when I try lvextent, it says there is not enough diskspace.
