CentOS

There is a slew of articles on the web when searching for "upgrade centos 7 to centos 8". In the past I have always done a clean install of the new major release then reinstalled data. Have others tried these upgrade articles? I think Trevor H does not recommend them, but its tempting to try, given ...

Thank you - it worked..

Just realised that what I did did not have 100% the finished result: Created a new PV /dev sda4 then did the following vgextend centosVG /dev/sda4 lvextend -L +10G /dev/mapper/centosVG-root When I do df -Th it appears that I did not exand the filesystem correctly - Any advise to fix this? Filesystem...

sdc is my 500G external hard drive for backups.. lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 476M 0 part /boot/efi ├─sda2 8:2 0 476M 0 part /boot └─sda3 8:3 0 119.2G 0 part ├─centosVG-root 253:0 0 9.3G 0 lvm / ├─centosVG-swap 253:1 0 7.5G 0 lvm [SWAP] ├─centosVG-...

fdisk -lu /dev/sd[a-z] WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion. Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O ...

Thanks for all the replies:
Deleting the unused stuff in /tmp did help and I do not get the warning message now.
This is a desktop..the spec when I bought it said 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD..never did see how to access the HDD

Not really..
vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
centosVG 1 4 0 wz--n- 119.21g 4.00m

There is this large file in /tmp
-rw-rw-r--. 1 trevor trevor 1243623424 Jun 28 13:40 magick-21652uBHJaQsEFs9B.pam
Do you think I can delete it?
Do not know what these files are doing..

There is a lot in /usr - I find that strange.. du -m -x -d 1 / 1 /srv 1187 /tmp 1 /lost+found 53 /etc 1 /media 38 /root 46 /opt 1 /mnt 7251 /usr 8680 / du -m -x -d 1 /usr 84 /usr/sbin 218 /usr/libexec 1 /usr/games 2162 /usr/share 1 /usr/etc 1502 /usr/lib 368 /usr/bin 2614 /usr/lib64 46 /usr/include ...

Started getting a volume "filesystem root" warning message. I have recently installed snapd to allow me to access hey email here is df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs devtmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 7.8G 79M 7.7G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 7.8G 11M 7.8G 1% /run tmp...