tldr/pages/linux/lvextend.md

lvextend

Increase the size of a logical volume. See also: lvm. More information: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lvextend.8.html.

• Increase a volume's size to 120GB:

lvextend --size {{120G}} {{logical_volume}}

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

lvextend --size +{{40G}} -r {{logical_volume}}

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

lvextend --size {{100}}%FREE {{logical_volume}}