This will involve creating a new partition with the new space, expanding the volume group and logical group, then finally resizing the file system.Īs there are a number of different ways to increase disk space I have also posted some different methods here: Once this is complete we will get into the virtual machine and make the necessary changes through the operating system in order to take advantage of the additional space that has been provided by the hard drive being extended. Firstly we will be increasing the size of the actual disk on the VMware virtual machine, so at the hardware level – this is the VM’s.
This post will cover how to increase the disk space for a VMware virtual machine running Linux that is using logical volume manager (LVM).
