Hello Jerry,
> Now if I alotted in the vm itself 125gb and it shows 53gb then
> that extra space is still there or is it actually holding 125?
storage space is thin provisioned as such your App-VMs will grow over time.
You can check the available space with
df -h
Please keep in mind that you have several layers:
Physical Harddrive / SSD
Partitions
LUKS Encryption
LVM
LVM consists of:
LVM PV Physical Volumes (command: pvdisplay)
LVM VG Volume Groups (command: vgdisplay)
LVM LV Logical Volumes (command: lvdisplay)
This offers lots of flexibility but also raises complexity.
You could have only 10 GB physical free space on you drive, while a virtual machine with a thin provisioned drive could fool you that there is plenty free space available.
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