Increased Disk space not found on Linux VM on VMWare server
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Increased Disk space not found on Linux VM on VMWare server
Hello everyone,
I'm using vmware VCenter server verson 4 and vSphere Client4.0. I've created a virtual machine for my Linux server and allocated 100GB of hard disk space with thin provisioning system.Now I have increased the size to 200GB. But after restarting the server I could not see the 200GB it still showing 100GB only. What about the remaining hard disk space?
What is the reason? Is there any remedy to solve this?
you say "it" is not showing the space, where are you looking for it? it won't magically appear as part of a file system, you'll need to create anew partition, extend a logical volume etc. an "fdisk -l" on the guest should give some info. Please provide some useful information about your guest and I'm sure we can help.
I will expalin the process.
I have shutdown the VM and increase the disk space from 100GB to 200 GB and restarted the VM.
When I tried to check the diskspace using 'df' command it shows the old size.
My query is, how to added the extra space to the existing allocated disk space?
Is there any process to be followed to add the new allocated diskspaces?
df shows only what you have currently mounted. If you increase the disksize the size of your partition on it will remain the same. You have to either grow the partition and the filesystem now, or create another partition on the free space and mount it.
I am not Linux system admistrator and don't know how to grow the partition. I cannot make it as another partition.
My data sits in the existing partition and is growing everyday due to development work.
Could you please guide me how to acheive this (grow the partition)?
Boot the VM from a GParted Live-CD. With GParted you can easily resize the partition in a nice GUI, it will also handle the resizing of the filesystem for you.
But don't forget to backup your data first, resizing partitions is a system critical task that may eventually fail.
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