RHEL disk size

Question

Hello all, I have created 2 Linux instances in Azure. one instance is Ubuntu, and the other is RHEL. Both have the same disk size (e.g. 64 GB). Now with Ubuntu I can see the free space is shown under /

/dev/sdb1 62G 2.5G 60G 4% / which tell me I still have 60 G available

but that's not the case with RHEL.

/dev/mapper/rootvg-rootlv 2.0G 71M 2.0G 4% / which tells me only 2G available
Also if I sum up the outcome of df -h, it isn't 64G either. Now certainly I found a way to fix this by using

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But don't think that's the correct approach.
Please let me know if anyone came across such a scenario? if yes how RHEL handles the allocated disk space? Or will it start throwing error as soon as / is full

Answer 1

@Amit Vengsarkar
The RHEL VM you are using has LVM setup, which is why you are seeing the difference. I am guessing this is using an image which was imported from an on-prem VM. I normally don't recommend using LVM in the cloud as it increases the complexity without benefits. If you wish to expand the root LVM partition this is a helpful guide, this is for Ubuntu, but should be the same across Linux. I highly recommend using a non LVM image, but if that is not possible then the guide can help you familiarize yourself with the management of it.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have further questions or issues and I will do my best to assist.

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