1. Shutdown the VMware virtual machine.
2. Right click on the VMware virtual machine and select "Edit Settings".
3. On the "Hardware" tab, select the virtual disk you would like to resize
and in the "Capacity" section enter the required size.
!! If you see a disk greyed out, it's because the disk controller is set to IDE in the VM.
When you boot the virtual machine now the OS will not see the new size,
it will only see the old size. You need to expand the volume into the new free space.
For this I use fdisk, because it's embedded in every linux distribution.
If you have
/dev/sda1
as the filesystem, and /dev/sda2
as the unused partition,
check the partitions with
fdisk /dev/sda
:# fdisk /dev/sda
...
Command (m for help): p
...
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 8016434 268434432 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 8016435 1953520064 972751815 83 Linux
You need to make sure that your new
sda1
starts in the same location (here, 63) and ends where sda2
ended (here, 8016434). And double-check that where sda1
ends is immediately before where sda2
starts (here, 8016434 is immediately followed by 8016435) just to be sure.
Then delete the unused partition, and the filesystem partition:
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 2
...
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 1
Recreate the filesystem partition:
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1
First sector (63-1953520064, default: 63): 63
...
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (63-1953520064, default 1953520064): 1953520064
Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): 83
Check result :
Command (m for help): p
...
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 8016434 268434432 83 Linux
Save all changes :
Command (m for help): w
Now you should reboot.
After reboot , re-size file-system :
# resize2fs /dev/sda1
After all changes, check for result :
janis@ubuntu01:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 252G 48G 194G 20% /
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