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Symptom & Impact
lvextend cannot grow filesystem due to exhausted volume group space.
Environment & Reproduction
Error states insufficient free extents in VG.
Root Cause Analysis
Run vgs, lvs, pvs and check block devices availability.
Quick Triage
No additional PV capacity allocated to target VG.
Step-by-Step Diagnosis
Add disk, pvcreate, vgextend, then lvextend -r for online growth.
Solution – Primary Fix
Confirm size via lvs and df -h after filesystem resize.
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Solution – Alternative Approaches
Track VG free percent with alerting thresholds.
Verification & Acceptance Criteria
If needed, remove newly added PV after data migration rollback plan.
Rollback Plan
Use storage role to standardize LVM provisioning.
Prevention & Hardening
pvcreate; vgextend; lvextend -r
Related Errors & Cross-Refs
Provide lsblk and LVM metadata backups when escalating.
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References & Further Reading
XFS supports online growth but not shrink.
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