CentOS 7 XFS disk resizing

Couldn’t find any article that explained step by step how to resize the main disks volume in a CentOS 7 vm. In my example I started witha single disk of 8GB and expanded to 20GB. I have two partitions on disk sda

sda1 type Linux for boot
sda2 type Linux LVM for the remaining logical volumes

Space utilisation as following:

[root@vcd-c1-s1 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.9G 8.8M 3.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/centos-root 6.2G 1.9G 4.4G 31% /
/dev/sda1 1014M 179M 836M 18% /boot
tmpfs 783M 0 783M 0% /run/user/0

We basically need to:

1) Check and print the existing partitions

fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p

2) Delete the existing lvm partition (sda2)

Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 2

3) Create a new LVM partition including the extended new size

Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
p primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free)
e extended
Select (default p): p
Partition number (2-4, default 2): 2

4) Set the new partition to be of type 8e (Linux LVM)

Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1,2, default 2): 2
Hex code (type L to list all codes): 8e
Changed type of partition 'Linux' to 'Linux LVM'

5) Check again the changes before writing them to disk

Command (m for help): p
<REMOVED OUTPUT>

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8)
Syncing disks.

6) Reboot the vm

reboot

7) Resize the physical volume to match the size of the partition (sda2)

pvresize /dev/sda2

Physical volume "/dev/sda2" changed
1 physical volume(s) resized / 0 physical volume(s) not resized

8) Resize the logical volume to use the new space available

lvresize /dev/mapper/centos-root /dev/sda2
Size of logical volume centos/root changed from <6.20 GiB (1586 extents) to <18.20 GiB (4658 extents).
Logical volume centos/root successfully resized

9) Finally, resize the file system.

Using resize2fs I was getting the following error:

resize2fs /dev/mapper/centos-root
resize2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
resize2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/mapper/centos-root
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

So after a bit of Googling found out I had to use xfs_growfs instead, as following:

xfs_growfs /dev/centos/root
meta-data=/dev/mapper/centos-root isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=406016 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1
= crc=1 finobt=0 spinodes=0
data = bsize=4096 blocks=1624064, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
naming =version 2 bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
data blocks changed from 1624064 to 4769792

10) Finally check again the file system disk space

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.9G 8.8M 3.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/centos-root 19G 1.9G 17G 11% /
/dev/sda1 1014M 179M 836M 18% /boot
tmpfs 783M 0 783M 0% /run/user/0

Src: https://blog.bertello.org/2019/12/resizing-centos-7-disk/