I have added the new disk and the RAID array is finished syncing, now what?
You can check the result of the RAID sync with:
$sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md127
##Note the array size.
OR
In my case, I'm using logical volume management LVM.
$sudo pvdisplay
##Note the PV size
The PV size is what you can work with. In my case I want to allocate the free space to two logical volumes. I want to add 300GB to my Music lv and the rest to my Videos lv.
$sudo lvextend -L +300G /dev/ubuntu-vg/Music-lv
##This will add 300 GB to my Music-lv.
$sudo lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/Videos-lv
##This will add the rest of the free space left to my Videos-lv.
We still need to extend the filesystem to the added space. I have ext4 filesystem.
$sudo resize2fs /dev/ubuntu-vg/Music-lv
##This extends the filesystem to the added space.
$sudo resize2fs /dev/ubuntu-vg/Videos-lv
##This extends the filesystem to the added space.
Check the results.
$df -h
[donato@archdesktop ~]$ df -ht ext4
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vol1-root 30G 18G 11G 62% /
/dev/mapper/vol1-home 174G 27G 138G 17% /home
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-Music--lv 591G 210G 355G 38% /home/donato/Music
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-Videos--lv 2.2T 1.1T 1.1T 51% /home/donato/Videos
[donato@archdesktop ~]$
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