I bought a new larger hard drive locally and finally got a chance to increase the root size of my bl460 g7 blade server that serves as my CCTV Zoneminder system and Plex movie streaming system. The Plex database gets large due to the amount of media I have for Plex. The files are accessed via network, but the database stays local. I started running out of space on “/” because I didn’t feel the need to split off /var and I should have.
Anyhow I went from 146GB 15K SAS drive to a 15K 300GB SAS drive. I like to keep my boot drives fast as possible.
What I did was downloaded the latest ISO version of Clonezilla along with the latest version of Balenaetcher, which I used to burn Clonezilla to a USB making it bootable.
Once I booted into Clonezilla from the USB I created with Balenaetcher I used Clonezilla to create an image of my boot dive with “/” on to my NAS drive via NFS. I then switched out my 146GB drive and put in my 300GB drive and restored the image to that drive. I then increased the partitions and voila I have a ton more space and could expand more if I needed.
Here’s the basic steps bulletized:
- Created Clonezilla bootable USB using Balenaetcher from my Fedora Workstation
- Booted off Clonezilla USB and copied boot image to FreeNAS via NFS
- Shutdown system and took 146GB boot drive out and put in 300gb drive as replacement
- During boot went into RAID utility and deleted 146GB virtual drive.
- Still in RAID utility created new virtual 300gb drive to encompass full size of 300gb drive RAID0.
- Booted back into Clonezilla Live USB and restored disk image from NAS via NFS.
- Rebooted off the new drive into the OS successfully and verified everything was working
- Deleted and extend the partition for “/” in fdisk.
# fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 279.4 GiB, 299966445568 bytes, 585871964 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x750d2bfe
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 2099199 2097152 1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2099200 286676991 284577792 135.7G 8e Linux LVM
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1,2, default 2):
Partition 2 has been deleted.
Command (m for help): n
Partition type
p primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free)
e extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p):
Using default response p.
Partition number (2-4, default 2):
First sector (2099200-585871963, default 2099200):
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (2099200-585871963, default 585871963):
Created a new partition 2 of type 'Linux' and of size 278.4 GiB.
Partition #2 contains a LVM2_member signature.
Do you want to remove the signature? [Y]es/[N]o: N
Command (m for help): w
Rebooted since the partition was busy.
# shutdown -r 0
After reboot I still don’t have enough physical extents to expand the logical volume.
--- Volume group ---
VG Name cl
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 5
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 3
Open LV 3
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size <135.70 GiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 34738
Alloc PE / Size 34738 / <135.70 GiB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID Yfe0bt-qxYw-Vme0-nioR-WexB-4Rku-xfW5SG --- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/cl/root
LV Name root
VG Name cl
LV UUID FnDp59-R9uo-kaTr-jRrF-WW35-maSm-qMmNze
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time coral, 2020-08-28 00:46:01 -0700
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 50.00 GiB
Current LE 12800
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 8192
Block device 253:0
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/sda2
PV UUID e3FYP0-Us7d-fjUO-MfNI-BpbG-L1eU-jbqwYN
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 34738 / 0
So now I make the rest of the drive accessible to LVM:
# pvresize /dev/sda2
Physical volume "/dev/sda2" changed
1 physical volume(s) resized or updated / 0 physical volume(s) not resized
I now have space to expand within LVM:
--- Volume group ---
VG Name cl
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 6
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 3
Open LV 3
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 278.36 GiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 71261
Alloc PE / Size 34738 / <135.70 GiB
Free PE / Size 36523 / <142.67 GiB
VG UUID Yfe0bt-qxYw-Vme0-nioR-WexB-4Rku-xfW5SG --- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/cl/root
LV Name root
VG Name cl
LV UUID FnDp59-R9uo-kaTr-jRrF-WW35-maSm-qMmNze
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time coral, 2020-08-28 00:46:01 -0700
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 50.00 GiB
Current LE 12800
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 8192
Block device 253:0
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/sda2
PV UUID e3FYP0-Us7d-fjUO-MfNI-BpbG-L1eU-jbqwYN
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 71261 / 36523I then extended the logical volume and filesystem:
]# lvextend -L 100G /dev/mapper/cl-root -r
Size of logical volume cl/root changed from 50.00 GiB (12800 extents) to 100.00 GiB (25600 extents).
Logical volume cl/root successfully resized.
meta-data=/dev/mapper/cl-root isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=3276800 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1
= crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=1, rmapbt=0
= reflink=1
data = bsize=4096 blocks=13107200, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0, ftype=1
log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=6400, version=2
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
data blocks changed from 13107200 to 26214400
Confirmed new filesystem size and system was operational and I was done.
]# df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 40G 0 40G 0% /dev
tmpfs 40G 198M 39G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 40G 9.8M 40G 1% /run
tmpfs 40G 0 40G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/cl-root 100G 49G 52G 49% /
/dev/mapper/cl-home 72G 3.1G 69G 5% /home
/dev/sda1 976M 341M 569M 38% /boot
/dev/mapper/zoneminder-lvol0 1.8T 1.4T 401G 77% /zoneminder
192.168.0.8:/mnt/file-storage2/sonora-nfs1 32T 26T 6.1T 81% /nfs1
tmpfs 7.9G 20K 7.9G 1% /run/user/42
tmpfs 7.9G 4.0K 7.9G 1% /run/user/1000
]# ps -ef | grep plex
plex 1983 1 0 23:12 ? 00:00:03 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server
plex 2967 1983 0 23:12 ? 00:00:02 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-e2e58f321/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 1.23.6.4881-e2e58f321 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-e2e58f321/System.bundle
plex 3232 1983 0 23:12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex DLNA Server
plex 3245 1983 0 23:12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Private /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Shared 1.23.6.4881-e2e58f321 32600
plex 3297 1983 0 23:12 ? 00:00:02 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.agents.imdb] /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-e2e58f321/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 1.23.6.4881-e2e58f321 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-e2e58f321/PlexMovie.bundle
root 8171 4424 0 23:18 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto plex
]# systemctl status zoneminder
● zoneminder.service - ZoneMinder CCTV recording and security system
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/zoneminder.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/zoneminder.service.d
└─zm-httpd.conf
Active: active (running) since Sat 2021-08-21 23:12:36 PDT; 6min ago
Process: 3342 ExecStart=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 3842 (zmdc.pl)
Tasks: 26 (limit: 513304)
Memory: 9.3G
CGroup: /system.slice/zoneminder.service
├─3842 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmdc.pl startup
├─3886 /usr/bin/zmc -m 1
├─3890 /usr/bin/zmc -m 2
├─3904 /usr/bin/zmc -m 3
├─3910 /usr/bin/zmc -m 4
├─3914 /usr/bin/zmc -m 5
├─3919 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl --filter_id=1 --daemon
├─3924 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl --filter_id=2 --daemon
├─3929 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmwatch.pl
├─3934 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmtelemetry.pl
└─3945 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmstats.pl
Aug 21 23:18:42 coral zmc_m2[3890]: INF [zmc_m2] [Front-Porch_Speco-2: 11000 - Analysing at 29.91 fps from 10999 - >
Aug 21 23:18:42 coral zmc_m5[3914]: INF [zmc_m5] [Upstairs-Uview-2: 9300 - Capturing at 25.37 fps, capturing bandwi>
Aug 21 23:18:44 coral zmc_m4[3910]: INF [zmc_m4] [Kitchen-Uniview-1: 9300 - Capturing at 25.38 fps, capturing bandw>
Aug 21 23:18:44 coral zmc_m3[3904]: INF [zmc_m3] [Front-Driveway-Vitek-1: 10900 - Capturing at 29.65 fps, capturing>
Aug 21 23:18:44 coral zmc_m3[3904]: INF [zmc_m3] [Front-Driveway-Vitek-1: 10900 - Analysing at 29.64 fps from 10899>
Aug 21 23:18:45 coral zmc_m1[3886]: INF [zmc_m1] [Backyard-1-Speco: 11100 - Capturing at 30.12 fps, capturing bandw>
Aug 21 23:18:45 coral zmc_m1[3886]: INF [zmc_m1] [Backyard-1-Speco: 11100 - Analysing at 30.12 fps from 11099 - 109>
Aug 21 23:18:45 coral zmc_m2[3890]: INF [zmc_m2] [Front-Porch_Speco-2: 11100 - Capturing at 29.94 fps, capturing ba>
Aug 21 23:18:45 coral zmc_m2[3890]: INF [zmc_m2] [Front-Porch_Speco-2: 11100 - Analysing at 30.15 fps from 11099 - >
Aug 21 23:18:46 coral zmc_m5[3914]: INF [zmc_m5] [Upstairs-Uview-2: 9400 - Capturing at 25.39 fps, capturing bandwi>