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How to increase the root partition size on Fedora

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 
  1. 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.

  1. 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
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