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How to increase the root partition size on Fedora
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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
  1. 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.

  1. 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
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