Need help increasing storage size to max space on drive.

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Summary of the issue you are facing:

[…]My drive is 24TB but nextcloud is set at 2TB, I want to expand it to use the whole drive

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

  1. Just need help expanding the size

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Ok, how have you setup your disk, are there different partitions? Or do you use a LVM?

check the currently mounted storage in your OS:

df -h

More about the hardware and partitions:
sudo lsblk

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@raspberrypi:~ $ df -h

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           3.2G   15M  3.2G   1% /run
/dev/sda2       2.0T  1.9T  5.9G 100% /
tmpfs           8.0G   47M  7.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M   48K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
tmpfs           8.0G  128K  8.0G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda1       510M   78M  433M  16% /boot/firmware
tmpfs           1.6G  288K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/serial-getty@ttyAMA10.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/getty@tty1.service

@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo lsblk

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0    7:0    0    2G  0 loop
sda      8:0    0 21.8T  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0  512M  0 part /boot/firmware
└─sda2   8:2    0    2T  0 part /
zram0  254:0    0    2G  0 disk \[SWAP\]
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It seems that there is a limit to older partition tables that can handle only disk sizes up to 2 TB. There are GPT partition tables that support larger sizes:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html

The last link there should be ways you can find out, if your current linux kernel supports this. What I don’t know and requires a bit of research, if there are easy ways to update without reformatting all the storage. If you can convert to the GPT format, and then later increase the size of the partition, this is supported by many partitions.

Anyhow, even if it works without deleting everything, don’t forget a backup, since you easily get something wrong.

I wasn’t aware of this, and I am about to get larger disks, so I really learnt something useful today, thanks.

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Thanks, I also have a bunch of files that say locked, any thoughts on how to unlock them? Can you add other partitions to nextcloud?

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You can unlock by deleting the entries from the database (if redis is not used):