How to resize logical volume in Proxmox
Oct 6, 2024
· 1 minutes read
A step-by-step guide for when your VM runs out of disk space.
Allocate more space on Proxmox
- Go to your VM > Hardware tab
- Select the disk you want to resize
- Click on the Disk Action dropdown in the menu bar, then Resize
- Resize the disk as much as you need:

Extend the partition in the VM
1 - Make the partition see the space (dev/sda3 in my case)
sudo cfdisk
Then, resize the partition within cfdisk
2 - Extend the Physical Volume (PV) from the partition
sudo pvresize /dev/sda3
3 - Extend Logical Volume (LV) to use up all space from Volume Group (VG)
sudo lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv
4 - Resize file system
sudo resize2fs /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv
5 - Check that can see the space on filesystem
df -h
Source: https://packetpushers.net/blog/ubuntu-extend-your-default-lvm-space