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After you've finished installing the OS, it's time to connect to the server and begin updates and a base configuration. I connect through SSH, but you can do it the physical box if you want. I've found that if you don't make any changes to the default disk settings, you fill up the disk very quickly. Let's change that first, we need to resize the logical volume to use all the existing and free space of the volume group. | After you've finished installing the OS, it's time to connect to the server and begin updates and a base configuration. I connect through SSH, but you can do it the physical box if you want. I've found that if you don't make any changes to the default disk settings, you fill up the disk very quickly. Let's change that first, we need to resize the logical volume to use all the existing and free space of the volume group. | ||
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Revision as of 10:09, 11 July 2020
This guide will help you install, configure, and secure a golden image for your Ubuntu servers.
Requirements
This guide assumes you know the basics of installing an operating system on a computer.
Installing the Ubuntu Server
This should be a pretty standard answer the questions and follow the directions on screen. If you want a static IP address you can set it here, but I like to set a static address through DHCP instead of on the actual server. I also like to use LVM for the disk set ups.
Update and Configure
After you've finished installing the OS, it's time to connect to the server and begin updates and a base configuration. I connect through SSH, but you can do it the physical box if you want. I've found that if you don't make any changes to the default disk settings, you fill up the disk very quickly. Let's change that first, we need to resize the logical volume to use all the existing and free space of the volume group.
sudo lvm
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv
exit
And then, we need to resize the file system to use the new available space in the logical volume. After that's done, we should make sure that it shows the new disk size.
sudo resize2fs /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv
df -h