Vmware expand disk linux

Vmware expand disk linux

You can add storage space to a virtual machine by expanding its virtual hard disk.

When you expand a virtual hard disk, the added space is not immediately available to the virtual machine. To make the added space available, you must use a disk management tool to increase the size of the existing partition on the virtual hard disk to match the expanded size.

The disk management tool that you use depends on the virtual machine guest operating system. Many operating systems, including Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 and some versions of Linux, provide built-in disk management tools that can resize partitions. Third-party disk management tools are also available, such as EASEUS Partition Master, Acronis Disk Director, and the open-source tool GParted.

When you expand the size of a virtual hard disk, the sizes of partitions and file systems are not affected.

As an alternative to expanding a virtual hard disk, you can add a new virtual hard disk to the virtual machine. See Add a New Virtual Hard Disk to a Virtual Machine.

Prerequisites

• Power off the virtual machine.
• Verify that the virtual disk is not mapped or mounted. You cannot expand a virtual disk while it is mapped or mounted.
• Verify that the virtual machine has no snapshots.

Procedure

1. Select the virtual machine and select Virtual Machine > Virtual Machine Settings .
2. On the Hardware tab, select the virtual hard disk to expand.
3. Select Utilities > Expand .
4. Set the new maximum size for the virtual disk.

What to do next

Use a disk management tool to increase the disk partition size to match the expanded virtual disk size.

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how to increase HD size of Linux running on VMware

I have already increased the size by going into VMWARE Workstation settings ->Hardisk to 34GB. But I cant able to relocate it inside the Ubunto running inside the VMware. I want to increase the size of /dev/sda1

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I faced the same problem and fixed it using gparted .

After increasing the size by going into VMWARE Workstation settings -> Hardisk,

sudo apt-get install gparted

• After installation, open gparted
• You will see the space unallocated(1), this is the space that you indicated in your vmware workstation settings (5GB in my case)
• Select your existing partition(1), then click the Resize/Move icon(2).
• Simply, move the resize handle up to your desired new size(1), click Resize (2).
• Do not forget to click the Check icon to Apply all operation made.
• and that’s it! You have expanded your VM HD Size.

Try it out, the app’s ui made it easier to use. I used this method in my VMWare Workstation for Ubuntu 18.04. (might work as well with Ubuntu 20.x)

For me this is not working. Despite the space showing up as unallocated as expected, after selecting the existing partition and clicking Resize/Move , the space cannot be allocated. Minimum size and maximum size show the same value.

Sometimes the GUI approach beats the CLI approach. The check icon looked slightly different in v1.2.0. Thank you!

How to expand hard disk size using VMware:

To increase the virtual disk from the command line:

1. Open a command prompt. For more information, see how to open command prompt.
2. Navigate to the product’s installation directory. See how to do that
3. Type vmware-vdiskmanager -x 100Gb vm.vmdk and press Enter(Replace 100Gb with the actual size of virtual disk that you want. You can also specify Kb and Mb.)
4. Follow this

And, I guess you’ve tried this(from GUI):

1. Select the virtual machine from the Inventory.
2. Click Edit Virtual Machine Settings.
3. Click Hard Disk.
4. Click Utilities > Expand, enter the new size, then click Expand.
5. Again, follow this one

How to expand hard disk size inside Ubuntu(using gparted tool):

What about expanding inside Ubuntu, I guess you should try gparted or similar tool. How to do that, go here

To open gparted do the following:

1. Install it by typing sudo apt-get install gparted
2. Run it by pressing Alt+F2 , and type there gparted

Note: To edit the hard disk size we must remove existing snapshots, so be careful

First, remove any existing snapshots and edit the Hard disk size and launch the VM

COMMANDS

Run below commands as ROOT user

=> Select the File System ‘linux-swap’ and click on ‘Swapoff’

=> Select the File System ‘extended’ then do right click and select ‘resize/move’ and drag the right arrow to full-right, then click ‘resize/move’

=> Select the File System ‘linux-swap’ then do right click and select ‘resize/move’ and drag the left-and-right symbol to full-right, then click ‘resize/move’ and click ‘OK’

=> Select the File System ‘extended’ then do right click and select ‘resize/move’ and drag the left arrow to full-right and select Align to ‘Cylinder’ from drop-down menu, then click ‘resize/move’

=> Select the File System ‘ext4’ then do right click and select ‘resize/move’ and drag the right arrow to full-right, then click ‘Resize’

=> Then either click on ‘check symbol’ or go to edit and select ‘Apply All Operations’ then click ‘Apply ‘ and ‘Close’ (Ignore warnings)

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How to extend partition in Ubuntu Guest on Vmware

On my Windows 7 host, I am using VMware Player to use Ubuntu. I had initially allocated 20GB and now getting Disk space full errors. So I wanted to extend partition. By searching on forums I saw how to add more disk and used this command to make it 30G —

sudo lvextend -L30G /dev/sda1 

But still df command shows that max is 20GB. After more searching it seems that I need to extend partition using gparted. I tried using that but Resize button is disabled. I searched for that and they say that if the partition shows a key image then that partition is active and I cannot change it if it is live. Screenshot After some more search looks like this can also be fixed by using booting the OS from CD or using gparted boot from cd, boot using iso etc etc without giving any clear instructions. Can someone please guide or post any link which has clear instructions including screenshots for a linux layman as to how I can extend the partition.

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Just did it in a Ubuntu 18.04 Server guest over a Windows 10 host.

The easiest way is, like you already suggested, to boot a live Ubuntu (the regular one, not server) and use GParted.

But first you need to «configure» the VMWare to increase the «virtual disk» size. Follow these steps:

1. Shutdown the guest
2. Click on «edit virtual machine settings» of that guest
3. Click on «Hard disk» and «Expand. «
4. A VMware window will let you modify the size, in GBs, of the device. Set the size you want and click on «Expand». After a while it will end.

At this point, the hard drive is bigger than before, but the partition is not. You must resize the partition also. To do so, download the ISO file of the regular Ubuntu distribution. Any other bootable device will also work, but this is the simplest way. Having the ISO downloaded do this:

1. In the same configuration window as before, instead of configure the «Hard Disk» go to «CD/DVD» section.
2. Make sure the option «Connect at power on» is set.
3. Select «Use ISO image file:» and browse to the ISO file you downloaded.

After this, the guest is ready to be launched. Click in «Play virtual machine» and pay attention because you need to press the Esc key very quick to enter the boot menu, just before the VMWARE logo appears. As it were the BIOS of your physical computer.

Tip: After click on «Play. » click again over the VMWare window (black screen at this point) to make sure that the control of keyboard and mouse are in the guest, and not in the host. If you miss this step, you can simply reboot and try again.

Once you see the boot options:

1. Press the down arrow key to highlight «CD-ROM Drive» and press enter.
2. Ubuntu will start as live session.
3. Select appropriate language and «Try Ubuntu».
4. Wait until the desktop is loaded.

Look for the GParted tool and launch it. You will see two main blocks, one with some color (yellow probably) and the other in gray. The colored block is your actual partition (probably called /sda/sda1). To resize it do:

1. Right click on the yellow block and select «ummount» or «stop»
2. Right click again and «resize».
3. In the new window, drag the limit of the partition to wherever you want of the free space (gray).
4. Click «Ok»
5. Don’t forget to click in «Apply changes» in Gparted’s main window before closing, otherwise the operation is not performed.

Once it is finished, you have already a bigger partition, just reboot and you will be good to go. (Don’t forget to uncheck the CD/DVD Connect at power on if it is not needed).

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The steps below is taken from : Extending partitions on Linux VMware virtual machines | TechRepublic . To view the pictures mentioned in the step, please go to the site, i have modified the step from that site, as some steps were not clearly explained and missing:

1. Shutdown the VM
2. Right click the VM and select Edit Settings
3. Select the hard disk you would like to extend
4. On the right side, make the provisioned size as large as you need it
5. Click OK
6. Power on the VM
7. Connect to the command line of the Linux VM via the console or putty session
8. Log in as root
9. The fdisk command provides disk partitioning functions and using it with the -l switch lists information about your disk partitions. At the command prompt type fdisk -l
10. The response should say something like Disk /dev/sda : xxGB . (See Figure A )
11. At the command prompt type fdisk /dev/sda. (if dev/sda is what was returned after step 10 as shown in Figure A )
12. Type p to print the partition table and press Enter (also shown in Figure A )
13. Type n to add a new partition
14. Type p again to make it a primary partition
15. Type: 3 (partition number)
16. Type: t (type)
17. Type the default numbers you see on the line. in other words select default first available cylinder to the default last cylinder. In Figure A the default last is 2610 so you type 2611 in that case.
18. Type 3 (partition Number)
19. Type: 8e (set type to LVM)
20. Type w to save these changes
21. reboot
22. Log back in as root
23. At the command prompt type fdisk -l . You’ll notice another partition is present. In Figure B it is listed as sdaX .
24. Type: pvcreate /dev/sdaX (where X i the number you see on step 23. to initialize this new partition as a physical volume s
25. Now you’ll add the physical volume to the existing volume group using the vgextend command. First type df -h to find the name of the volume group. In Figure C , the name of the volume group is vg_root (for me it was: . Now type vgextend [volume group] /dev/sdaX. (ex: vgextend vg_root /dev/sda4). in my case it was something like: vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda3
26. Type: lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 to Extend the logical volume
27. Type: resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 to expand the ext3 file system in the logical volume
28. You can now run the df command to verify that you have more space–df -h

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