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How to expand /dev/mapper/cl-root (/dev/mapper/centos-root)

Step-by-step instructions
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---You MUST be root to perform the below steps---

1. Check the current disk status to ensure dev/mapper/cl-root /dev/mapper/centos-root) is exactly 50G and /dev/mapper/cl-home (/dev/mapper/centos-home) is much larger in size.
df -h

Example:
[root@ptaserver /]# df -h
Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs             7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                7.8G  802M  7.0G  11% /run
tmpfs                7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/cl-root   50G   11G   40G  22% /
/dev/sda1           1014M  265M  750M  27% /boot
/dev/mapper/cl-home  441G   33M  441G   1% /home
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1001
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1007
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1003
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1005
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1006
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1008
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/0


2. Stop PTA
service appmgr stop


3. Copy everything from the home directory out
cp -a /home /home2


4. Unmount the volume
umount /dev/mapper/cl-home (umount /dev/mapper/centos-home)


5. Delete the home logical volume
lvremove /dev/mapper/cl-home (lvremove /dev/mapper/centos-home)

Example:
[root@ptaserver /]# lvremove /dev/mapper/cl-home
Do you really want to remove active logical volume cl/home? [y/n]: y
  Logical volume "home" successfully removed


6. Extend the root logical volume to take up the rest of the space
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/cl-root (lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/centos-root)

Example:
[root@ptaserver /]# lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/cl-root
  Size of logical volume cl/root changed from 50.00 GiB (12800 extents) to 481.12 GiB (123167 extents).
  Logical volume cl/root successfully resized.


7. Extend the xfs partition
xfs_growfs /dev/mapper/cl-root (xfs_growfs /dev/mapper/centos-root)

Example:
[root@ptaserver /]# xfs_growfs /dev/mapper/cl-root
meta-data=/dev/mapper/cl-root    isize=512    agcount=4, agsize=3276800 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
         =                       crc=1        finobt=0 spinodes=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=13107200, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=6400, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
data blocks changed from 13107200 to 128744448


8. Check that /dev/mapper/cl-root (/dev/mapper/centos-root) has been increased in size and that /dev/mapper/cl-home (/dev/mapper/centos-home) has been removed
df -h

Example:
[root@ptaserver /]# df -h
Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs             7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                7.8G  810M  7.0G  11% /run
tmpfs                7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/cl-root  492G   11G  481G   3% /
/dev/sda1           1014M  265M  750M  27% /boot
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1001
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/0
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1007
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1003
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1005
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1006
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1008

9. Move the home directory data back and remove the temporary home2 directory
mv /home2/* /home/
rmdir /home2



10. Remove the /dev/mapper/cl-home (lvremove /dev/mapper/centos-home) entry from /etc/fstab
vi /etc/fstab
DELETE the line:
/dev/mapper/cl-home     /home                   xfs     defaults        0 0


11. Start PTA
service appmgr start


12. Run Diagnostics to ensure PTA is functioning again:
RUN_DIAGNOSTICS