In this guide, I will show you commands which can help to check unallocated disk space on your Linux system in order to extend the existing partition or create a new disk. What is unallocated space? Don't confuse free space and unallocated space. Unallocated space means that the operating s...
Expanding disk partitions to use all the available (unallocated) disk space is a common issue among Linux Administrators, expecially when working in a VMware-based Cloud environment. This often happens when deploying a Linux VM from an existing template using managed services like Amazon AWS...
Now that the logical volume has successfully been extended to use all the unallocated space, we still have to perform one last step: increase the file system to match the logical volume size. Doing that is just as easy as typing one of the following command, depending if we're us...
DISK ERROR THERMAL ERROR POWER SUPPLY ERROR [OFF] [OFF] [OFF] Disk LED Status: OK = GREEN ERROR = YELLOW DISK 2: [OK] DISK 3: [OK] DISK 0: [OK] DISK 1: [EMPTY] === Fans: --- Fan Bank Speed Status --- --- --- CPU 49 OK PWR 31 OK Power Supplies: --- Supply Ratin...
* Unallocated space: * First Sector Last * Sector Count Sector * 8277120 103680 8380799 * * First Sector Last * Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory 0 2 00 0 2049840 2049839 / 1 3 01 2049840 615600 2665439 2 5 00 0 8380800 8380799 ...
Whilelsblkdoes not provide detailed disk usage info, the output shows a hierarchical view of block devices, including their names, major and minor numbers, sizes, read-only statuses, types, and mount points. To determine the overall unallocated space on the drive, sum up the sizes of all par...
The example output below shows two disks,/dev/sdaand/dev/sdb. The first storage disk,/dev/sda, has been formatted already and contains theoperating system. The second disk,/dev/sdb, contains unallocated space only. Choose an unpartitioned disk on your system and proceed with the next step...
* Unallocated space: * First Sector Last * Sector Count Sector * 8277120 103680 8380799 * * First Sector Last * Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory 0 2 00 0 2049840 2049839 / 1 3 01 2049840 615600 2665439 2 5 00 0 8380800 8380799 ...
This option does not automatically correct most problems, though; for that, you must use gdisk. If no problems are found, this command displays a summary of unallocated disk space. Write Write data. Use this command to save your changes. ...
After you've deleted all the Linux volumes, the space will become unallocated. You can either reassign this unallocated space to any existing Windows volume, or use it to create a new volume. In my case, I opted to leave the space unallocated. ...