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4.1 LVM: Dynamic Logical Volumes

GPT partitioning, Logical Volume Manager (LVM), ext4, XFS, Btrfs, and ZFS filesystems.

4.1 LVM: Dynamic Logical Volumes

LVM enables online filesystem expansion with zero service interruption.

# Expand logical volume and grow underlying ext4 filesystem online
lvextend -L +20G /dev/vg_system/lv_data -r
# Inspect available allocation space in Volume Group
vgs