lvextend

Extend a logical volume

medium risk

interactive breakdown — edit the command and press Explain

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⚠ Risks & cautions

Check free VG space (vgs) first.

What it does

Adds space to an LV; use -r to grow the filesystem as well.

Common flags

Flag	Meaning
`-L`	New size or +size
`-r`	Resize the filesystem too
`-l`	Extents

Examples

lvextend -r -L +10G /dev/vg0/dataGrow by 10G including the filesystem · explain & risk-check →

Related

Open the full explainer →More in Disks & Filesystems

Reference text is hand-written and may be incomplete — check man lvextend for your version. Test destructive commands on a non-production system first.