Running out of free space, please help

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Hi Guys,

so im experiencing some problems with my nextcloud install.

Im running out of free space although i have a 810gb drive as a boot drive.

I am running nextcloud on a ubuntu server VM inside proxmox.

I will add a couple of pictures since the problem i’m having is probably gonna become apparent from them.

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So my df -h puts out a “/dev/mapper/ubuntu–vg-ubuntu–lv” with a sitze of 49gb wich is 84% full.

This is where all of my NC data apparently is stored.

49 gb is the size of my boot drive before i expanded it to 810 gigabytes (see screenshot in second post)

vgs pvs and lvs all refer to this 49gb drive.

How can i expand my ubuntu–vg-ubuntu–lv to use the whole drive?

I tried numerous things and am at a loss right now…

Greetings from Germany.

Please exucse my typos english is not my first language

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3rd pic due to first post restrictions here.

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Hi,

After resizing your LVM partition, you should resize your filesystem. For example, this command resize ext2,3,4 filesystem :
resize2fs /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv

Be careful: you NEVER should have a filesystem size greater than your partition size.

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Hey Thom thanks for getting back to me that quick, unfortunately this was among the things i allready tried and just resolves in:

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Yep, I just saw your LVM partition size is still 49GB. I don’t know how your resize your hard drive, maybe you miss to resize your LVM volume? Maybe you need to integrate a new gpt/mbr partition to your LVM volume?

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well i have no idea to do these things tbh, im still pretty new to linux and do basically everything by google, read, understand and then act :smiley:

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First of all, you can see your mbr/gpt partitions size with gparted (gui) or fdisk/gdisk (cli).
If you have unused space, you can extend an existing partition, or create a new one. Then you can resize your LVM partition, then your filesystem.

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so i tried gparted, that doesnt work. then i tried fdisk -l which gives me an output and also some sort of error message, seen it before just didn’t bother to research it to be honest.

Maybe this is my error?

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5909×393 6.99 KB

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Did you try “pvresize /dev/sda3” ?

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i did but i get the same output on fdisk - l regardless

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so the “dev/mapper/ubuntu–vg-ubuntu–lv” is basically a “virtual disk” inside a virtual disk on sda3? Did i understand that correctly?

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You could also boot your VM with a GParted Live ISO. Then you could easily make the changes via the GParted-GUI. This is how I did it when I had to enlarge my virtual disk in Proxmox.

https://gparted.org/

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ubuntu–vg-ubuntu–lv is a lvm partition using sda3 because sda3 is (the only) part of ubuntu-vg volume group.

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Did you reboot after making changes?

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hi guys, just a final entry here:

ended up reinstalling NC completely, apparently i specified a very small partition during installation, so not really a nextcloud issue but rather a ubuntu / linux issue i completely botched myself. After reeinstalling and giving it 100% of my 2tb drive as a “boot” drive i have no issues now :slight_smile:

Thanks for the help anyway!

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