I use an lvm, one for /home and another for /root (and another for swap, but that doesn't matter here). This lvm consists of 2 hard drives: one is 1.82 Tb, and the other is 476 Gb. My /home is 2 Tb, my /root is 25Gb, swap is 6 Gb.
Recently my /root lvm partition has been running out of space so I extended it by 25 Gb using the lvextend command. There were no errors and I went about my business. See lvdisplay output below.
~$ sudo lvdisplay
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--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/computer/home
LV Name home
VG Name computer
LV Size 2.00 TiB
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/computer/root
LV Name root
VG Name computer
LV Size 50.00 GiB
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/computer/swap
LV Name swap
VG Name computer
LV Size 6.00 GiB
However, it seems that ubuntu doesn't recognize that the lvm has been extended. I still get the warnings that my disk space will run out in the /root partition. You can see this in the Ubuntu Disk Usage Analyzer, which does not recognize the change.
I was worried that I extended the lv without having enough free space, but the vgdisplay command tells me that there is 235 GiB of free space in this volume group.
My question: What's going on here and what can I do to fix this? Why does Ubuntu not recognize the extended logical volume? Is there something that I missed when extending the logical volume?