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umairnazim
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‎06-03-2011 06:00 AM

how to extend hard disk space of existing mount point in Linux when running over VMWare.

If a system has 100 GB space in /sys ( mount point) and we want to extend the harddisk space to 150 Gb. How we can do this is os is Linux over VM using VMWare. This machice is connected to storage.

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vmroyale
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‎06-03-2011 06:19 AM

Hello and welcome to the forums.

Note: This discussion was moved from the VMware vSphere Storage community to the Virtual Machine & Guest OS community.

VMware kb 1035655 has instructions for this procedure on the VMware Management Appliance, but they should be basically the same.  Make sure you have a backup, before you try any of these changes.

Good Luck!

Brian Atkinson | vExpert | VMTN Moderator | Author of "VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: VCP-550" | @vmroyale | http://vmroyale.com
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weinstein5
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‎06-03-2011 06:20 AM

welcome to the community - The first step would be increase the size of the virtual disk that has the /sys partition on it - the from within the guest o/s you will need to expand the paritition.

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AndreTheGiant
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‎06-03-2011 08:09 AM

To extend the partition you need LVM on Linux. If is not enable I suggest to go to a simple way: add a new disk, copy the data, mount the new disk in /sys instead of the existing one and then delete the old disk.

Andre

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