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5 Replies Last post: Oct 26, 2009 5:32 AM by drdemonx  

Help! Resized virt partitions and they won't boot. posted: Oct 22, 2009 7:59 PM

Click to view drdemonx's profile Novice 13 posts since
Feb 25, 2006

Hello,

I have two partitions both are the same - clones of each other - both running Centos4x

My ESX version is 2.5.4


I went through the process to expand their partitions using the following command:

vmkfstools -X 15g /vmfs/vmhba0:0:0:6/New server.vmdk

(they used to be 10gb in size).

Now when I power on the servers in Virtual Center I get an error:

"A general system error occured: operation failed to change the VM to the expected power state"

What do I need to do to get them to boot?

Thanks!


Mike

Click to view Saadat's profile Hot Shot 92 posts since
Jul 11, 2008
Click to view Saadat's profile Hot Shot 92 posts since
Jul 11, 2008

I usually use gparted live CD. Just boot out of CD and make the changes.

Sorry, I am not a Linux guy.

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Jul 11, 2008

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