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I have successfully increased the space on AWS EBS volume.

# lsblk
NAME         MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
nvme0n1      259:0    0   64G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1  259:1    0 63.9G  0 part /
├─nvme0n1p14 259:2    0    3M  0 part 
└─nvme0n1p15 259:3    0  124M  0 part /boot/efi
nvme1n1      259:4    0    2T  0 disk 
└─main-var   254:0    0  996G  0 lvm  /var

How can I add the 1T on nvme1n1 to main-var lvm?

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Show the current situation:

lsblk
pvs
df -h

Tell LVM to extend to the full size of the physical device:

pvresize /dev/nvme1n1

Show again to see changes:

pvs

Now you see PFree has increased:

vgs

VFree should have also increased. Extend your volume so it uses that space:

lvextend -L +1T /dev/vgname/lvname

Show the new volume size:

lvs

Now you have to resize your filesystem with either resize2fs, xfs_growfs, etc utility.

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  • Thanks! pvs not showing me new space dazzled me.
    – b4d
    Dec 13, 2021 at 21:12
  • I have found in the past that with some AMIs if you reboot the server the extra disk space is added automatically. I don't recall which distro this was with.
    – Tim
    Dec 14, 2021 at 0:55
  • unlike debian where it never detects the new size until you reboot
    – exeral
    Dec 14, 2021 at 16:56

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