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How To Resize/Grow VMware Linux Disks and Partitions


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 10th, 2007 in Linux

Updated: January 18th, 2009

Update 01/16/2008: This method does not work for LVM partitions, as discovered in the comments.

In this article, I will show how to resize a VMware disk if you didn't make it large enough when it was created. Furthermore, I will show how to resize partitions following the disk augmentation using OpenSUSE 10.2 as an example. You will even be able to resize the Linux root partition (/) that is mounted and is normally unmountable.

The story: this is simple – you made a VMware disk without thinking ahead and now it ran out of space. Here you have a few options, the most notable ones being create another disk and mount it or grow the existing disk and …

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