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Add a new disk to the system. Create a partition on the system. Format the newly created partition. Mount the new partition to a temporary mount point like /mnt. Select a subdirectory on a filesytem on which you need more space. Move all the files in that subdirectory to your temporary mount point.

In short, here are the steps to extend the size of your logical volume: Create a new partition on hard disk. Add the partition you just created as a physical volume. Add the new physical volume to the volume group. Assign space from the volume group to the logical volume. Resize the filesystem.

Partition and Create a Filesystem Using YaST On the left side under Hard Disks, select one of the new disks and hit Enter, which shows a pale panel with device info on it. Use Tab to navigate to the [Partition Table] entry at the bottom of the pale panel, and hit Enter. Select Create New Partition Table, and hit Enter.

Add a new disk to the system. Create a partition on the system. Format the newly created partition. Mount the new partition to a temporary mount point like /mnt. Select a subdirectory on a filesytem on which you need more space. Move all the files in that subdirectory to your temporary mount point.

If you want to resize a system disk, the device name of the disk is /dev/vda in most cases. If a single disk has successive partitions, you can only extend the last partition. For example, the /dev/vdb data disk has three partitions named /dev/vdb1 , /dev/vdb2 , and /dev/vdb3 .

To add a swap file in the running system, proceed as follows: Create an empty file in your system. Initialize this swap file with the command. Activate the swap with the command. Check the current available swap spaces with the command. To enable this swap file permanently, add the following line to /etc/fstab :

Resizing the partition online using fdisk fdisk does not support resizing a partition. In this case the existing root partition needs to be deleted and recreated using the same start block but selecting the new end block to assign all available disk space to the partition.