How To Expand Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Filesystem Volume on Hyper-V

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I tried existing solutions on 18.04 and found it doesn't work with a 'nothing to do' output. Some further searching had similar-but-slightly-different steps and needing to merge a few different bits-and-pieces from other solutions on the web to make work.

Setup: Hyper-V; VHDX file as hard disk; Ubuntu-18.04

Steps:

  1. Expand the VDHX file via Hyper-V as mentioned in existing solutions and then inside the VM:

  2. fdisk -l

    See which partition is the current Ubuntu setup - should be obvious based on size (in my case was sda3)

  3. growpart /dev/sda 3

    Note the space as mentioned.

  4. pvresize /dev/sda3

    This is the step which isn't mentioned in a lot of places; its the intemediate step that allows the logical volume extension step work.

  5. lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv

    The /dev/ part can seen in the fdisk output from step 1.

  6. resize2fs /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv

    After the prep above, this step now works. Takes a couple of moments and afterwards can verify with df -h that the partition is expanded.

src = https://superuser.com/questions/1716141/how-to-expand-ubuntu-20-04-lts-filesystem-volume-on-hyper-v