HowTo Resize The "root" File System Using LVM

Overview

This page demonstrates how to resize the root file system by increasing it's size by 2GB using Logical Volume Manager (LVM). The follow environment exists:

1. The root file sytem is of type xfs

[root@nst22 ~]# mount|grep root
/dev/mapper/nst22-root on / type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota)