Updated October 2026: added the one-line quick answer, the “I grew the virtual disk first” path (growpart and pvresize), a troubleshooting section and the agent handoff block. The original walkthrough below is unchanged. Quick answer If your Ubuntu root volume is full and vgdisplay shows free space in the volume group, this one command gives the whole lot to the root LV and grows the filesystem in the same step: ...
Note: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS reached end-of-life in April 2023, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS reaches EOL in April 2025. If you’re starting fresh, install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The do-release-upgrade process shown here is still valid for sequential LTS upgrades. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS full release is almost upon, with a scheduled release date of April 23rd 2020 (2 days as of writing this). It is packed with lots of great new features and upgrades and the Linux community is very excited to get a hold of it. If you are looking to upgrade ubuntu, there is a quick guide down below. ...
https://snapcraft.io/nextcloud I have been using the Nextcloud snap package for a long time, but some recent system changes in my colocation facility mean that it is time for a big upgrade. Rather than migrate my existing Nextcloud instance, I have decided to build a new install and here are my goals for the new installation: Use lets encrypt to have automatic and valid HTTPS certificates Have the data path for Nextcloud on a HDD and the rest of the host OS on an SSD. Host OS Details For this setup, I am using Ubuntu 18.04 installed on a 30GB SSD backed partition. I then have a 1TB disk attached and mounted to /media. ...
Updated October 2026: this page replaces six separate posts I wrote between 2019 and 2021 about upgrading Python on Debian 9 and 10, Ubuntu 19.10 and Kali, and switching the python command from 2.7 to 3. The old URLs redirect here. Everything in the first half was re-tested on 8 October 2026 in fresh Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04 containers. The original 2019 from-source walkthrough is kept at the end because it still works, with one important correction. ...