Allocate Your Disk Free Space To Partition in Linux

You can change the default disk space allocation from the command line if you did not change the disk space when you ran the Linux installation program.

 

Issue

If you use Ubuntu default configuration and it might not use all of your hard drive for your partitions. 

You will see some free space during installation wizard. If you did not change it to use all hard drive space, you might need to re-allocate your free space later.

Steps

Here are some steps if you are facing same issue. 

0) #df -h

Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                    1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    1.9G  824K  1.9G   1% /run
tmpfs                    1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/fedora-root   15G  2.1G   13G  14% /
tmpfs                    1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /tmp
/dev/md126p1             976M  119M  790M  14% /boot
tmpfs                    388M     0  388M   0% /run/user/0

1) # vgs

  VG     #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree   
  fedora   1   2   0 wz--n- 231.88g 212.96g

2) # vgdisplay

  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               fedora
  System ID
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  3
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                2
  Open LV               2
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               231.88 GiB
  PE Size               4.00 MiB
  Total PE              59361
  Alloc PE / Size       4844 / 18.92 GiB
  Free  PE / Size       54517 / 212.96 GiB
  VG UUID               9htamV-DveQ-Jiht-Yfth-OZp7-XUDC-tWh5Lv

3) # lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/fedora-root

  Size of logical volume fedora/root changed from 15.00 GiB (3840 extents) to 227.96 GiB (58357 extents).
  Logical volume fedora/root successfully resized.

4) #lvdisplay

5) #fd -h

6) # xfs_growfs /dev/mapper/fedora-root

meta-data=/dev/mapper/fedora-root isize=512    agcount=4, agsize=983040 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
         =                       crc=1        finobt=1 spinodes=0 rmapbt=0
         =                       reflink=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=3932160, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=2560, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
data blocks changed from 3932160 to 59757568


7) #df -h

Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                    1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    1.9G  828K  1.9G   1% /run
tmpfs                    1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/fedora-root  228G  2.3G  226G   2% /
tmpfs                    1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /tmp
/dev/md126p1             976M  119M  790M  14% /boot
tmpfs                    388M     0  388M   0% /run/user/0

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12313384/how-to-view-unallocated-free-space-on-a-hard-disk-through-terminal

Commands:

lsblk

sudo lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv

sudo resize2fs /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv

Additional notes

In addition to all the answers about how to find unpartitioned space, you may also have space allocated to an LVM volume but not actually in use. You can list physical volumes with the pvdisplay and see which volume groups each physical volume is associated with. If a physical volume isn't associated with any volume group, it's safe to reallocate or destroy. Assuming that it it is associated with a volume group, the next step is to use vgdisplay to show your those. Among other things, this will show if you have any free "physical extents" — blocks of storage you can assign to a logical volume. You can get this in a concise form with vgs:

$ sudo vgs
  VG     #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree
  fedora   1   3   0 wz--n- 237.46g    0 

... and here you can see I have nothing free. If I did, that last number would be bigger than zero.

This is important, because that free space is invisible to du, df, and the like, and also will show up as an allocated partition if you are using fdisk or another partitioning tool. 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12313384/how-to-view-unallocated-free-space-on-a-hard-disk-through-terminal

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