Increase size of VM disk...

[lorito]

Hi:

I tried to use VMware Converter to increase the size of disks, but it didn't created a bigger one... I read in the help file, that VMWare Converte will create a VMware virtual disk file that it will grows when neccesary, but it doesn't work in such a manner... Could you please help me ?...

[lorito]

I am running CentOS 5 in the virtual machine (using VMWare Player), under Windows XP...

Sincerely,

Gonzalo Rojas

[continuum]

why don't you simply add another disk and mount it as /home or /usr ?

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[lorito]

Hi:

I created a second virtual disk using "VMX Builder" but I don't know how can I mount it in /home (for example)... I don't know too which is the name of that device (in /dev)... Could you please help me ?...

Sincerely,

Gonzalo Rojas Costa

[continuum]

log in as root

1. create a partition and format the new disk

2. check which device name it has - something like /dev/hdb1 or /dev/sdb1 probably

3. mount the new partition to a temporary mount-point like /home-new

4. copy the contents of /home to /home-new

5. rename /home to /home-old

6. create new empty directory /home

7. edit fstab and write an entry that mounts /dev/sdb1 to /home

8. reboot

log in as user - check if everything works

if yes - you can delete the old /home-old directory

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