Maxroot Command doesn't work?

[ejc317]

We have a 250GB drive and we want a 200GB pve-root and a 24GB swap with rest going to storage.

WE did

linux maxroot=200 swapsize=24 and it just wont work (the swap part works ...) did something change?

 

[tom]

with maxroot you cannot increase the root volume. this defines the maximum size of the root partition. as the calculate size is lower (as you only have a 250 GB) it does not increase to 200.

in order to get what you want, do the following:

linux maxvz=26 swapsize=24

you will still not get a root volume with 200 GB, but you can extend the root volume with LVM standard toolset as you have about 137 GB free space in your VG pve.

 

[ejc317]

Got this to work - thank you.

LVresize -L +xxG /dev/mapper/pve-root
E2fsck -f /dev/mapper/pve-root
resize2fs /dev/mapper/pve-root

had to reboot a few times but worked - did have a few orphaned inodes