Please help guide how to resize/expand pve-data

[xilex]

Hi all, I initially set up a Proxmox running inside ESXi with a small drive and would like to expand it now (64gb > 80gb). In ESXi, I increased the size of the hard drive for Proxmox. I'm not sure what to do inside Proxmox, however. I was reading a few threads online and ran a command (which I have forgotten), and it expanded it a little bit, but not what I expected. Here is what is generated from various commands from reading articles online when they are resizing stuff: https://pastebin.com/JcvU7gcw. I also uploaded some screenshots of inside Proxmox here https://imgur.com/a/7FnNvyL

Of note, I only have one VM running in Proxmox and current has 37GB hard drive size. It was 32GB and I increased the size to 37GB. But I would like to learn how to increase the size of /data/ for more space for VMs. I have used ESXi mostly in the past, and only familiar with Windows environments, so the partition structure and commands in Proxmox are unfamiliar to me. Thank you.

 

[leesteken]

You extended the (virtual) drive (in ESXi) but then you need to extend the (physical volume) partition otherwise lvm does not know that it can use the additional space.
I prefer booting (a VM or a physical system) with a GPartEd Live CD (or virtual ISO) to resize partitions.

 

[xilex]

Thanks, gparted makes things easier with the GUI. Afterwards, do I need to increase the size of pve-data or /dev/pve/data? If this is more of a Linux question, please let me know, I can ask on a Linux help forum.

root@pve:~# pvdisplay
  --- Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/sda3
  VG Name               pve
  PV Size               <79.50 GiB / not usable 1.98 MiB
  Allocatable           yes
  PE Size               4.00 MiB
  Total PE              20351
  Free PE               4096
  Allocated PE          16255
 
root@pve:~# lsblk
NAME                                              MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                 8:0    0   80G  0 disk
├─sda1                                              8:1    0 1007K  0 part
├─sda2                                              8:2    0  512M  0 part
└─sda3                                              8:3    0 79.5G  0 part
  ├─pve-swap                                      253:0    0    4G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
  ├─pve-root                                      253:1    0 15.8G  0 lvm  /
  ├─pve-data_tmeta                                253:2    0    1G  0 lvm 
  │ └─pve-data-tpool                              253:4    0 41.8G  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve-data                                  253:5    0 41.8G  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve-vm--100--disk--0                      253:6    0   37G  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve-vm--100--disk--1                      253:7    0    4M  0 lvm 
  │   └─pve-vm--100--state--suspend--2021--03--21 253:8    0  8.5G  0 lvm 
  └─pve-data_tdata                                253:3    0 41.8G  0 lvm 
    └─pve-data-tpool                              253:4    0 41.8G  0 lvm 
      ├─pve-data                                  253:5    0 41.8G  0 lvm 
      ├─pve-vm--100--disk--0                      253:6    0   37G  0 lvm 
      ├─pve-vm--100--disk--1                      253:7    0    4M  0 lvm 
      └─pve-vm--100--state--suspend--2021--03--21 253:8    0  8.5G  0 lvm 
sr0                                                11:0    1 1024M  0 rom

 

[leesteken]

Sorry, I don't know Proxmox on lvm that well. Maybe someone else here has more experience with it.

 

[bbgeek17]

What does pvs / vgs / lvs show now?

In most cases if you expanded the underlying physical device, then you need to:
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/pve/data

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