# Resizing (or removing) Local-LVM

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When installing Proxmox to an ext4 volume, the installer assigns the majority of your boot disk to "Local-LVM". This may not be desirable if you plan on using a secondary disk for VM storage, and would like to store more ISO images and backups in the root volume (known in Proxmox as "Local").

First, run lvdisplay (**L**ogical **V**olume display) as root to check the current layout:

```shell
root@pve:~# lvdisplay
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/pve/swap
  LV Name                swap
  VG Name                pve
  LV UUID                DkDV6A-7iqo-70kO-i9Gx-d9qo-XaCu-VUCAYb
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time proxmox, 2021-03-13 22:40:36 +0000
  LV Status              available
  # open                 2
  LV Size                8.00 GiB
  Current LE             2048
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:0
   
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/pve/root
  LV Name                root
  VG Name                pve
  LV UUID                pqcv3c-Csis-fBqQ-ARkb-3xzo-7xau-DaRzxT
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time proxmox, 2021-03-13 22:40:37 +0000
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                58.00 GiB
  Current LE             14848
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:1
   
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name                data
  VG Name                pve
  LV UUID                tyoWtm-fyEr-PqRg-5Sn2-dcTq-tE69-qKHprl
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time proxmox, 2021-03-13 22:40:37 +0000
  LV Pool metadata       data_tmeta
  LV Pool data           data_tdata
  LV Status              available
  # open                 0
  LV Size                <147.38 GiB
  Allocated pool data    0.00%
  Allocated metadata     1.08%
  Current LE             37728
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:4
```

Based on the above output, we see that pve-data (local-lvm in the Proxmox GUI) is almost 3 times the size of the root volume. To resize this, you will first need to remove it. This will delete all contents of local-lvm, so please back up any virtual machines and remove them first so you don't lose anything!

```shell
root@pve:~# lvremove /dev/pve/data -y
  Logical volume "data" successfully removed
```

**Optional** - If you still require a local-lvm partition (but want to give it less space) you can recreate it with the following command (in this example, 40G is specified to give it 40 Gibibytes).

```shell
root@pve:~# lvcreate -L 40G -n data pve -T
  Thin pool volume with chunk size 64.00 KiB can address at most 15.81 TiB of data.
  Logical volume "data" created.
```

The logical volume for root can then be resized to give it all available free space:

```shell
root@pve:~# lvresize -l +100%FREE /dev/pve/root
  Size of logical volume pve/root changed from 58.00 GiB (14848 extents) to 224.38 GiB (57442 extents).
  Logical volume pve/root successfully resized.
```

Once the logical volume has been resized, the ext4 partition must also be resized using **resize2fs**:

```shell
root@pve:~# resize2fs /dev/mapper/pve-root
resize2fs 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018)
Filesystem at /dev/mapper/pve-root is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 8, new_desc_blocks = 29
The filesystem on /dev/mapper/pve-root is now 58820608 (4k) blocks long.
```

Once resized, run lvdisplay again to verify the changes have taken effect.

```shell
root@pve:~# lvdisplay 
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/pve/swap
  LV Name                swap
  VG Name                pve
  LV UUID                DkDV6A-7iqo-70kO-i9Gx-d9qo-XaCu-VUCAYb
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time proxmox, 2021-03-13 22:40:36 +0000
  LV Status              available
  # open                 2
  LV Size                8.00 GiB
  Current LE             2048
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:0
   
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/pve/root
  LV Name                root
  VG Name                pve
  LV UUID                pqcv3c-Csis-fBqQ-ARkb-3xzo-7xau-DaRzxT
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time proxmox, 2021-03-13 22:40:37 +0000
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                224.38 GiB
  Current LE             57442
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:1
```

Then, log into the Proxmox GUI and go to **Datacenter** &gt; **Storage** and remove the **local-lvm** entry:

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