Hi David,
Sorry for the delay in replying.
I still believe you can get your 120GB drive how you want it, so all is
not lost yet.
It looks like your LVM partition is the correct size now, but the volume
with your root filesystem is still the old size. This suggests that you
need to run:
lvextend -l+100%FREE /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root
the first letter of lvextend is lower-case "L".
the second argument to lvextend is: "dash", lower-case "L",
"plus"-symbol, one, zero, zero, percentage-symbol, and finally the word
"FREE" in upper-case; all without spaces between.
then run:
resize2fs /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root
It is probably best to do these in a cd/dvd-booted live session to be
sure it's as safe as possible.
On 09/02/2016 14:53, David Goldsbrough wrote:
I am going to spare you Daniel all the details and other readers of
this post.
Briefly I had documented everything and that is now lost for reasons I
can only guess. I had chosen your Option 2 without success and then
Option 1 with I hope is success. I did though suffer errors on
re-boot and so attempted another re-boot - this time it reported fsck
issues which I answered F to and all seemed fine.
I then rebooted from the 60GB USB drive to grab the documentation and
started up Firefox to get at my Google drve. Firefox started as if
this was the first time it had ever started - weird and accessing the
google drive and trying to find my documentation file - it was not
there! Odd!
So I reboted into my 120GB and again Firefox starts as if brand new -
bookmarks and history have gone. Cpuld dd have done that?
But forget that I think I now have a full 120GB system but am starting
to have some doubts over some of the files. What command should I run
to give me confidence I have a full 120GB?
Thanks
DaveG
On 8 February 2016 at 22:49, Daniel Llewellyn <diddle...@gmail.com
<mailto:diddle...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 8 February 2016 at 22:32, David Goldsbrough
<da...@boavon.plus.com <mailto:da...@boavon.plus.com>> wrote:
$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA TOSHIBA MK1255GS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 120GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 256MB 255MB primary ext2 boot
2 257MB 120GB 120GB extended
5 258MB 120GB 120GB logical lvm
Model: Mass Storage Device (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 256MB 255MB primary ext2 boot
2 257MB 60.0GB 59.8GB extended
5 257MB 60.0GB 59.8GB logical lvm
OK, from the above read-out it looks like fdisk changed the start
position of your partition when you recreated it. We have two
options as to how to proceed:
1. As you have your old LVM disk hooked-up you can reblow the
data across to the new larger partition and then run the
pvresize, lvextend and resize2fs again thereafter. To reblow
the data use `dd if=/dev/sdb5 of=/dev/sda5 bs=1m`.
2. Alternatively you can try to recreate the lvm partition again
with a start of 257M instead of the fdisk-chosen default 258M
(it chose 258 because that's "aligned" better for your SSD;
but being 1MB further into the disk means that the lvm
metadata is dangling unaddressable at 257MB) and as above
rerun the pvresize, lvextend and resize2fs again.
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Regards,
The Honeymonster Daniel Llewellyn
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