Allocated vs Capacity storage in Ubuntu


trahma

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I created an Ubuntu VM and set the Primary vDisk size to 550G.  After installing the OS, it looks as if I only have 196G allocated to the drive.   On the VM screen in the UI it lists capacity at 550G and Allocation at 152G.  I assume resizing with Ubuntu will be painful and don't mind rebuilding the machine but I can't seem to see an obvious setting to ensure this doesn't happen again.

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This turned about to be an Ubuntu issue.  Despite telling Ubuntu to use all of my disk space it only created a 196G partition.  I was able to use lvextend and resize2fs to extend the logical volume.  I have yet to understand this functionality but by creating additional VMs I was able to replicate it.

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