After the clean install of ubuntu, I only had a 4GB OS partition setup for me. This partition lived on a single physical volume (PV), volume group (VG) and logical volume (LV). These are important concepts to understand Linux filesystem structures.

The first step in expanding my storage is to create a separate logical volume within my volume group. Create the logical volume and verify its creation.

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After the logical volume is created, you need to make a filesystem.

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A filesystem needs to be mounted to a particular path. Therefore you need to create a mount point.

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sudo mkdir data

I created a new folder in the root folder “/” called “/data” and mounted the filesystem to that directory.

sudo mount /dev/ubuntu-vg/data-lv /data

After the filesystem is mounted you will see it when you check your disk usage and can easily verify the filesystem has mounted correctly. Notice my 3.6TB volume with 1% usage. Now I am ready to start installing PLEX.

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