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If it should become necessary to expand the storage space for /data, the following set of instructions should help you to perform that change with minimal NMIS downtime.
First, determine whether the NMIS VM is using LVM:
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# If the sudo lsblk command produces partition entries in the TYPE column 'lvm', then that partition is using LVM.
# In this example command, using a recent release of the NMIS VM that does not use LVM, we have disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
# /dev/sda has partitions /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda4 and all partitions are of TYPE part
[root@omk-vm9-centos7-20210806-stage-test ~]# sudo lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 120G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part /boot
├─sda2 8:2 0 15G 0 part /
├─sda3 8:3 0 1G 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda4 8:4 0 103G 0 part /var
sdb 8:16 0 120G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 120G 0 part /data |
NMIS VMs' using LVM
The resizing procedure is quite simple, for size increases at least. The two required steps are:
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