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Increase Space In Fedora

This document provides a step-by-step guide on how to increase the root partition size on Fedora by shrinking the home partition if necessary. It emphasizes the importance of backing up data before making changes to partitions and includes commands for checking available space and resizing partitions. The process involves using the 'lvresize' command to adjust partition sizes and requires logging in as the root user to unmount the home directory for shrinking.

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Increase Space In Fedora

This document provides a step-by-step guide on how to increase the root partition size on Fedora by shrinking the home partition if necessary. It emphasizes the importance of backing up data before making changes to partitions and includes commands for checking available space and resizing partitions. The process involves using the 'lvresize' command to adjust partition sizes and requires logging in as the root user to unmount the home directory for shrinking.

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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

Increase Root Partition Size On Fedora

Introduction
I recently was in the need of extending the root partition size on my system and spent quite some time
figuring out the approach to follow in doing so without losing data.
My scenario was I wanted to shrink the /home partition and use that space to increase root partition
size. In this blog, I will be sharing how I was able to do the same quickly as possible.

Backup, Backup, and Backup


Always take a backup before shrinking/expanding or doing any configurations on your partitions. If
you already have backups in your place then you are good to go, but If you don't then you can follow
along from this tutorial to create a backup using tar command
.
Now if you already have enough space, you can skip the next step of shrinking any partition to get the
space available. Although in my case, I did not have extra space, I had to shrink it from the home
directory.
Shrink Home
There are some prerequisites before we start the shrinking process.
To follow along, the first thing that you want to do is to switch yourself to the root user. And by
switching means logging out from your non-root user and login in with username as root and your root
password.
Note: You have to go into root user because your non-root (the current user) would be mounting the
home directory, so for shrinking, you would have to unmount the home partition but since some
processes might be using this partition it might throw you the error like
Do you want to unmount "/home" ? [Y|n] y
umount: /home: target is busy.
fsadm: Cannot proceed with mounted filesystem "/home".
/usr/sbin/fsadm failed: 1
Filesystem resize failed.

You can check if the target is busy or not using the


fuser -mv /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-home
Remember you can check where your fedora root and home partition is mounted using fdisk -l
command. In my case it is fedora_localhost--live-root and fedora_localhost--live-home)
Now to shrink this partition we will use lvresize tool.
lvresize -L -20G --resizefs /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-home

This will shrink 20Gb from home.

Extend Root Partition


Now you can see available space using the vgs command.

Run vgs to check if there's any space:


vgs

The output will be like this


VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
fedora_localhost-live 1 3 0 wz--n- 475.35g 20g

Now we can add this extra space into the root using the same lvresize tool. But now instead of -
20G we will add +20G to root.
lvresize -L +20G --resizefs /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root

And that's it, reboot your system and login with your normal non-root user and you would have your
root size increased.

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