how to extend Linux Partition Size in lvm

Extending a Logical Volume

Bottom line: if the underlying Volume Group doesn't have enough free space, to extend the Logical Volumeyou'll first have to extend the underlying Volume Group by adding another Physical Volume to it.

In VMWare you could either create a new virtual hard disk device to add to the volume group, or extend an existing virtual hard disk device, create a new partition with cfdisk, and add the new partition to theVolume Group:

# example #1: you've added to VMWare a new virtual hard disk called /dev/sdb
pvcreate /dev/sdb
vgextend turnkey /dev/sdb

# example #2: you've expanded the existing sda hard disk
cfdisk /dev/sda  # creating /dev/sda3 (you may need to reboot before you can see this)
pvcreate /dev/sda3
vgextend turnkey /dev/sda3

After you've extended the Volume Group, you are free to extend the underlying Logical Volume:

# lvextend -L+10G /dev/turnkey/root
Extending logical volume root to 27.0 GiB
Logical volume root successfully resized

Finally, you'll have to resize the filesystem within /dev/turnkey/root so it can see that the underlying block device just got 10G bigger:

# resize2fs /dev/turnkey/root
resize2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
Filesystem at /dev/turnkey/root is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old desc_blocks = 2, new_desc_blocks = 2
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/turnkey/root to  7077888 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/turnkey/root is now 7077888 blocks long.