How to increase the root partition size on Fedora

increase_root_fedora.md

How to increase the root partition size on Fedora

Boot up with an Fedora Live USB stick.

1. Run vgs to check if there's any space:

$ sudo vgs
  VG     #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize    VFree
  fedora   1   3   0 wz--n- <237.28g    0 

2. If there is you can just run:

lvresize -L +5G --resizefs /dev/mapper/fedora-root

NB: Remember to check where your fedora root and home partition is mounted by running fdisk -l.

3. If you don't have any free VFree space, you can shrink your home partition and then extend your root partition afterwards.

To scrink your home partition run:

lvresize -L -10G --resizefs /dev/mapper/fedora-home

And then to extend your root partition run:

lvresize -L +10G --resizefs /dev/mapper/fedora-root

Works fine on Fedora 37. Thanks!

In case of encrypted disk, unlocking is a must first. I've followed this article: https://thequantitative.medium.com/resize-an-encrypted-partition-without-breaking-your-linux-system-6ef475619745

This is exactly what I needed. I just ran into this issues while updating my 4 month old machine. I built my Fedora Server with a brand new 1TB drive, but apparently I only had 15GB assigned to root. Ran just the above code and it worked just fine! Thank you thank you!

thank you worked in fedora 25