Comments on: How To Resize/Grow VMware Linux Disks and Partitions http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/ where things have nothing to do with beer - tutorials, tips, how-tos, thoughts, hacks, and other techy nonsense Sat, 19 May 2012 21:39:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Bart McLeodhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52515 Bart McLeod Tue, 15 May 2012 20:13:07 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52515 You saved my day! You saved my day!

]]> By: Bradhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52475 Brad Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:45:42 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52475 Awesome! I have a Centos VM that I didn't think would grow as large as it has. These instructions worked exactly and I've been searching for a good method to accomplish this for weeks. Awesome! I have a Centos VM that I didn't think would grow as large as it has. These instructions worked exactly and I've been searching for a good method to accomplish this for weeks.

]]> By: b03tzhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52430 b03tz Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:52:10 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52430 Awesome article man, awesome! Used it several times...works flawless. Awesome article man, awesome! Used it several times…works flawless.

]]> By: Maurihttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52424 Mauri Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:42:06 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52424 Thank you, virtual disk resized. Very good guide! Thank you, virtual disk resized. Very good guide!

]]> By: Dannyhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52391 Danny Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:52:18 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52391 Thanks matey. My problem was understanding how I could boot an ISO image to extend a root partition on a VMware server without starting that image. I had not realised that a VM has a BIOS available at the boot stage. Your article excellently pointed this out and job done. Awesome. There are some really cool tools out there now, especially for Linux. Thanks matey. My problem was understanding how I could boot an ISO image to extend a root partition on a VMware server without starting that image. I had not realised that a VM has a BIOS available at the boot stage. Your article excellently pointed this out and job done. Awesome. There are some really cool tools out there now, especially for Linux.

]]> By: Mirekhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52302 Mirek Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:59:48 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52302 Thanks! "go have a few beers because this may take a while to finish" - grrrrr, I'm sorry but I'm in work :( 2Tim: I faced the same problem, then I clicked on the cd/dvd icon on the vmware frame again and i was on GParted starting screen :| Thanks! "go have a few beers because this may take a while to finish" – grrrrr, I'm sorry but I'm in work :(

2Tim: I faced the same problem, then I clicked on the cd/dvd icon on the vmware frame again and i was on GParted starting screen :|

]]> By: Timhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52281 Tim Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:05:34 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52281 I was stumped at part b where you press F2 to enter boot mode. You don't mention that, in VMware Player at least, you have to click inside the window before pressing F2. So 1) power on, 2) quickly click in the window, 3) F2. I was stumped at part b where you press F2 to enter boot mode. You don't mention that, in VMware Player at least, you have to click inside the window before pressing F2. So 1) power on, 2) quickly click in the window, 3) F2.

]]> By: prabhakar srinivasanhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52099 prabhakar srinivasan Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:34:26 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-52099 Thanks so much! I found your explanation so concise and easy to understand. It worked like a charm. I just downloaded the Gparted Live ISO image from sourceforge website and then inside VMware I clicked on the CD icon on bottom right hand corner and selected Settings and pointed to ISO image sitting in C:\ of host Windows. Then I changed boot sequence by hitting F2 (this was tricky with timing the F2 key stroke during bootup) and then selected CD ROM as first in boot sequence. Gparted came up predicatbly with the root partition in unmounted state and I was able to right click and select Resize. Earlier to doing all this I had moved the linux swap to end of the expanded space and made the newly available space as Unallocated. This makes it easy for root partition which has EXT4 file format to expand by adding on the Unallocated space as well. A problem which was nagging me for a week is now solved....i am loving days like today :) (BTW..i did not need TUXBOOT which gparted-live mentions in their website as a required step) peace! Thanks so much! I found your explanation so concise and easy to understand. It worked like a charm. I just downloaded the Gparted Live ISO image from sourceforge website and then inside VMware I clicked on the CD icon on bottom right hand corner and selected Settings and pointed to ISO image sitting in C:\ of host Windows. Then I changed boot sequence by hitting F2 (this was tricky with timing the F2 key stroke during bootup) and then selected CD ROM as first in boot sequence. Gparted came up predicatbly with the root partition in unmounted state and I was able to right click and select Resize. Earlier to doing all this I had moved the linux swap to end of the expanded space and made the newly available space as Unallocated. This makes it easy for root partition which has EXT4 file format to expand by adding on the Unallocated space as well. A problem which was nagging me for a week is now solved….i am loving days like today :)
(BTW..i did not need TUXBOOT which gparted-live mentions in their website as a required step)
peace!

]]> By: netzgewitterhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-51847 netzgewitter Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:21:24 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-51847 Thanks a lot for that information. I was doing the same thing with an ext4 partition with linux running in a VirtualBox VM. Since I ran into a couple troubles with parted in combination with ext4 I made a detailed writeup as well: http://www.netzgewitter.com/2011/08/resizing-linux-partition/ Thanks a lot for that information. I was doing the same thing with an ext4 partition with linux running in a VirtualBox VM. Since I ran into a couple troubles with parted in combination with ext4 I made a detailed writeup as well:

http://www.netzgewitter.com/2011/08/resizing-linux-partition/

]]> By: d ivanovhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-51649 d ivanov Mon, 30 May 2011 11:31:12 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-51649 Good one mate! Thanks a lot! Cheers! Good one mate! Thanks a lot! Cheers!

]]> By: Abhilash Krishnanhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-51177 Abhilash Krishnan Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:38:00 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-51177 Thanks much for you article. My problem was slightly different. Vmware fusion allocated around 3G for my / and 12G for my /home. I shrunk /home and resized my / to use the freed up space. Thanks much for you article. My problem was slightly different. Vmware fusion allocated around 3G for my / and 12G for my /home. I shrunk /home and resized my / to use the freed up space.

]]> By: Av8rhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-45485 Av8r Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:43:10 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-45485 Administrative Tools in Control Panel and go to Computer Management > Disk Management shows 8GB, on the disk image but when you right-click on the disk and go to properties, it only sees 4GB. The text area which lists Volume, Layout, Type, .... , Overhead is showing 4GB. Wierd?? Administrative Tools in Control Panel and go to Computer Management > Disk Management shows 8GB, on the disk image but when you right-click on the disk and go to properties, it only sees 4GB.

The text area which lists Volume, Layout, Type, …. , Overhead is showing 4GB. Wierd??

]]> By: Artem Russakovskiihttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-43865 Artem Russakovskii Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:11:42 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-43865 Well, the procedure here describes a Linux partition resizing - I'm not familiar with resizing a Windows drive, but my guess would be you need to resize it in Windows as well - open up Administrative Tools in Control Panel and go to Computer Management > Disk Management. Well, the procedure here describes a Linux partition resizing – I'm not familiar with resizing a Windows drive, but my guess would be you need to resize it in Windows as well – open up Administrative Tools in Control Panel and go to Computer Management > Disk Management.

]]> By: Av8rhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-43182 Av8r Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:10:34 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-43182 Hi, Everything for me went fine, except the last step. After I reboot my Windows VM, in Disk Management it shows the new size for C:\ has grown from 4G to 8GB, but the hard disk C:\ in windows explorer still says 4GB. Am I missing something? Thanks Hi,

Everything for me went fine, except the last step. After I reboot my Windows VM, in Disk Management it shows the new size for C:\ has grown from 4G to 8GB, but the hard disk C:\ in windows explorer still says 4GB.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

]]> By: Danhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-39385 Dan Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:56:53 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-39385 Thank you for a good guide. Instead of issuing the "vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 10Gb "YOUR_DISK.vmdk" command its now possible to change that setting inside wmware. Thank you for a good guide.
Instead of issuing the "vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 10Gb "YOUR_DISK.vmdk" command its now possible to change that setting inside wmware.

]]> By: Jacqueshttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-38832 Jacques Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:56:17 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-38832 Hello, all seems clear enough but when i try to resize my partition Gparted stops after 1 second saying he is unable to resize (forbidden sign) I'm using gparted 0.5.2-9 iso and trying to resize a WS2003 ntfs partition (system). Did i something wrong ? Hello, all seems clear enough but when i try to resize my partition Gparted stops after 1 second saying he is unable to resize (forbidden sign)
I'm using gparted 0.5.2-9 iso and trying to resize a WS2003 ntfs partition (system). Did i something wrong ?

]]> By: Muhammad Alihttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-38477 Muhammad Ali Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:15:56 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-38477 I tried to resize the vmdk file after 24% completion received the following error. C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager -x 220Gb "c :\apps12vm\Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.vmdk" Grow: 24% done.Failed to expand the disk 'c:\apps12vm\Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.vmdk': Unknown error (0x45d000900000001). I tried to resize the vmdk file after 24% completion received the following error.

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager -x 220Gb "c
:\apps12vm\Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.vmdk"
Grow: 24% done.Failed to expand the disk 'c:\apps12vm\Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.vmdk': Unknown error (0x45d000900000001).

]]> By: Muhammad Alihttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-38475 Muhammad Ali Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:01:06 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-38475 My host operating system is Windows 7, I made a VM ware image of linux os(guest os) which resides in my c drive. The size of the vm ware image is about 200 GB I would like to extend it to 220 Gb. Shall I need live cd or can I do it through vmware-vdiskmanager.exe utility. My host operating system is Windows 7, I made a VM ware image of linux os(guest os) which resides in my c drive.

The size of the vm ware image is about 200 GB I would like to extend it to 220 Gb.

Shall I need live cd or can I do it through vmware-vdiskmanager.exe utility.

]]> By: Robsonhttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-27308 Robson Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:16:55 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-27308 Hi I need to resize a Linux "/" filesystem but to reduce and recover disk space not to increase. The recovered disk space is to be used to create othe VMware machines on the same VMware host. The guest OS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4 for 64-bit AMD64/Intel EM64T) the VMWare host is also Linux. I have read your article but dont know how to use it to reduce and use freed disk space. Thanks for any help Hi

I need to resize a Linux "/" filesystem but to reduce and recover disk space not to increase.
The recovered disk space is to be used to create othe VMware machines on the same VMware host.
The guest OS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4 for 64-bit AMD64/Intel EM64T) the VMWare host is also Linux.
I have read your article but dont know how to use it to reduce and use freed disk space.
Thanks for any help

]]> By: cmghttp://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-25182 cmg Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:51:40 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2007/08/10/how-to-resizegrow-vmware-linux-disks-and-partitions/#comment-25182 @Simon Shaw (or in fact anyone who is having similar LVM difficulties): I encountered the same problems. I managed to solve the problem eventually as follows (WARNING, there may be errors here. I can't retrace my steps precisely having done everything via liveCD. You should investigate all steps, command usage, etc. yourself. I also recommend backing up your virtual disk before proceeding, it saved me a lot of tears :-) Also, some parameters [e.g. /dev/sda/, VolGroup00] may differ for you): 1) Change size of VMWare virtual disk through the VMWare interface 2) Start your VM from a live CD. (Press esc on boot with centOS). 3) Use fdisk to add a new LVM partition. ('n' to create a new partition, select 'p' for primary, 3 [or whatever] for 3rd primary partition, 't' to modify partition's system id to 8e [LVM]). Not sure if the modification of the partition's system id was necessary... did it anyway just to be safe. 4) Use pvcreate to intialise this partition for use by LVM $ pvcreate /dev/sda3 5) Use vgextend to add it to your volume group $ vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda3 # Thanks is obviously due to Tilman Schmidt for the # above few steps 6) Use lvextend to extend the LV: $ lvextend -L20G /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 # extend to 20GB 7) Unmount and resize fsg $ umount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 $ resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 # after trying resize2fs I was prompted to do a filesystem check before proceeding. If this happens, do this, and try again. # http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html for last 2 steps @Simon Shaw (or in fact anyone who is having similar LVM difficulties): I encountered the same problems. I managed to solve the problem eventually as follows (WARNING, there may be errors here. I can't retrace my steps precisely having done everything via liveCD. You should investigate all steps, command usage, etc. yourself. I also recommend backing up your virtual disk before proceeding, it saved me a lot of tears :-) Also, some parameters [e.g. /dev/sda/, VolGroup00] may differ for you):
1) Change size of VMWare virtual disk through the VMWare interface
2) Start your VM from a live CD. (Press esc on boot with centOS).
3) Use fdisk to add a new LVM partition. ('n' to create a new partition, select 'p' for primary, 3 [or whatever] for 3rd primary partition, 't' to modify partition's system id to 8e [LVM]). Not sure if the modification of the partition's system id was necessary… did it anyway just to be safe.
4) Use pvcreate to intialise this partition for use by LVM
$ pvcreate /dev/sda3
5) Use vgextend to add it to your volume group
$ vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda3
# Thanks is obviously due to Tilman Schmidt for the
# above few steps
6) Use lvextend to extend the LV:
$ lvextend -L20G /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
# extend to 20GB
7) Unmount and resize fsg
$ umount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
$ resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
# after trying resize2fs I was prompted to do a filesystem check before proceeding. If this happens, do this, and try again.

# http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html for last 2 steps

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