What do you see when you look at parted/gparted? Does it show the partition as taking up the full drive size or is there a bunch of "unallocated" disk space?
Yes,
parted showed that the partition was only 198GB. I thought I had used
parted to fix that issue in the past, but I couldn't remember how I did it, nor could I find the instructions last night.
When you originally created the partition... did you clone it from another drive or manually create it?
No, it wasn't a clone. I performed a fresh install on a used HD, but I didn't do anything with partitions. I just selected the check box to "Use an entire disk," and left everything else on defaults.
My first question would be:
Why use LVM? (I've never used it).[/url])
I didn't have a LVM partition initially, it was Linux filetype at first. I was having the same problem with disk space with the original file type also. I converted the partition type to LVM because I suspected it was an issue with the partition, and thought that would help me. IIRC the last time this happened to me I already had a LVM partition (probably because I wanted that one encrypted,) and was able to adjust the partition size without screwing things up. I was up later than I should have been goofing around with it last night and finally gave up.
First of all, you need to find out how LVM configure your hard drive partition. You could use tools such as system-config-lvm (also called LVM GUI) to find out.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I think it might be too late for that now. I didn't have too much time invested in the system, so I decided to start over. This morning I booted up from the sever installation usb, and played around with the partition settings. I don't know if it's something to do with Dell systems, but this is the second time this type of thing has happened to me. Once it was with a brand new SSD, also on a Dell system. For some reason the server install wants to set the partition size to 200GB. It seems like selecting the check box to use the entire disk doesn't actually partition the entire disk (barring what's needed for the boot sector, of course.) I found the setting in the partition options while goofing around with it this morning, so I think I'll get it figured out.
Thanks for all the help.
ETA: I am using UEFI, but I don't know if that has any thing to do with it.