increase size of disk

[wmtony]

Hello,

I have workstation 6.5.1 running on Widows vista business SP1. And as a guest I have centos 4.7, which I installed myself from a dvd iso.

It all works very well but I need to increase the disk size from 16 GB to 20GB.

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager -x 20GB "G:\Red H

at Enterprise Linux 4\Centos 4.vmdk"

Grow: 100% done.

$ df -k

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

12320688 5669000 6025820 49% /

/dev/sda1 101086 13387 82480 14% /boot

none 1031312 0 1031312 0% /dev/shm

I spun up Logical Volume management and I can see I have under /dev/sda unpartioned space.

So I thought get into the virtual bios and boot off the cdrom first - but I when I power up the virtual machine I just boot up of the harddrive as before.

The intention being to use disk-druid to give me some more space.

Any suggestions for the way forward?

TIA

Tony

[guyrleech]

So your problem is actually that you can't boot off a CD? Usual things to check are that the CDrom is set to connect at power up, it is before the HD in the boot order (or you can press <esc> as the VM boots to get a one time boot menu) and check that the CD/image is actually bootable.

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