how to increase /usr partition.
by garryjp from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5E2TC)
Hi,
I would like to increase the size of USR volume,i m not too familiar with the command lvextend, i need some guidence please
XXX:/usr # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 12K 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.9G 3.8M 3.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/system-root 2.9G 248M 2.5G 9% /
/dev/mapper/system-usr 4.8G 4.5G 61M 99% /usr
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/system/usr
LV Name usr
VG Name system
LV UUID Ezh7kv-hKVo-GgGJ-TAqH-4S92-Fq6d-eqdsMT
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time localhost.localdomain, 2017-05-29 14:46:19 -0400
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 5.00 GiB
Current LE 1280
Segments 3
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 8192
Block device 253:1


I would like to increase the size of USR volume,i m not too familiar with the command lvextend, i need some guidence please
XXX:/usr # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 12K 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.9G 3.8M 3.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/system-root 2.9G 248M 2.5G 9% /
/dev/mapper/system-usr 4.8G 4.5G 61M 99% /usr
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/system/usr
LV Name usr
VG Name system
LV UUID Ezh7kv-hKVo-GgGJ-TAqH-4S92-Fq6d-eqdsMT
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time localhost.localdomain, 2017-05-29 14:46:19 -0400
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 5.00 GiB
Current LE 1280
Segments 3
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 8192
Block device 253:1