I am trying to understand why on GParted sda1 look like full (and therefore it's impossible to edit the partition) but on terminal show me the disk in use is just 9%.
Can anyone help me to understand why I have the full disk but in reality, it isn't?
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That's because you are using logical volume management (LVM)
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/dev/sda1partition contains an LVM physical volume (PV) - the PV is assigned to a volume group (VG)
- the VG contains your root filesystem
So
- the PV fully occupies the partition
- the filesystem fully occupies the VG
but
- the files only occupy a small fraction of the filesystem
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So if i want to edit the partition, should i change the filesystem of the disk? – Kvadrat Oct 06 '18 at 18:14
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@Kvadrat see if this helps: [How to shrink Ubuntu LVM logical and physical volumes?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/252204/how-to-shrink-ubuntu-lvm-logical-and-physical-volumes) – steeldriver Oct 06 '18 at 18:22
