extending disk in a linux VM

[ogri]

Apologies if this is obvious, but the info I've been able to find so far hasn't helped.

I have a Ubuntu 16.04 VM running under VMware workstation (12.5.2 build-4638234) running on Windows 10. The VM seetings  show the disk as:

CUrrent Size: 12.0Gb

System Free: 321Gb

Maximum size: 30Gb

Within the VM, the disk usage is:

Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on

udev             4058652        0   4058652   0% /dev

tmpfs             815752     9564    806188   2% /run

/dev/sda1       12253360 10816720    791164  94% /

tmpfs            4078756      212   4078544   1% /dev/shm

tmpfs               5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock

tmpfs            4078756        0   4078756   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

vmhgfs-fuse    468848636 21050556 447798080   5% /mnt/hgfs

tmpfs             815752       40    815712   1% /run/user/1000

So I want to extend the root partition to the 30Gb (the max size as above). I run fdisk on /dev/sda and the info looks like:

Disk /dev/sda: 30 GiB, 32212254720 bytes, 62914560 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: dos

Disk identifier: 0x02679b9f

Device     Boot    Start      End  Sectors Size Id Type

/dev/sda1  *        2048 25165823 25163776  12G 83 Linux

/dev/sda2       25167870 41940991 16773122   8G  5 Extended

/dev/sda5       25169920 41940991 16771072   8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Now the question is how do I extend the disk space? I have tried following a document (Extending a logical volume in a virtual machine running Red Hat or Cent OS (1006371) | VMware KB)  which suggested creating a partition 3, however when I try this it creates a /dev/sda3 with a size of 2048 sectors. Then pvcreate /dev/sda3 fails as the size if not large enough.

Is it actually possible to extend /dev/sda1?

Any help appreciated, thanks.

[RAJ_RAJ]

Hi ,

Yes it is possible . Use the gparted live cd .

Refer below link .

Use GParted to increase disk space of a Linux native partition

[ogri]

Thanks. I was trying to find a way to repartition with the machine live. It turns out there is a way, and it seems to work just fine:

disk - Increase partition size on which Ubuntu is installed? - Ask Ubuntu

[RAJ_RAJ]

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