ADDING MORE DISK SPACE TO LINUX VM HOW TO
ADDING MORE DISK SPACE TO LINUX VM INSTALL
ADDING MORE DISK SPACE TO LINUX VM ISO

Please feel free to contact you have any questions. Press the 'Use remaining' button to make it use all the capacity, and then press the 'Ok' button:

The host OS (the one that is running VirtualBox) is Windows 7 and the guest OS that I wish to re-size is Ubuntu. In this example I am using VirtualBox 4.2.6 (The approach is valid with more recent versions also). Press the 'Add to existing Volume Group' to get it to join the 'VolGroup00'.Īfter it is done, select the logVol00 under VolGroup00, then press 'Edit Properties' button: Anyway, here are the current steps to re-size a VirtualBox disk, where Linux is the guest OS and Windows is the host OS. Launch system-config-lvm, as in the following image, select 'Partition 3' under the 'Uninitialized Entities', then press 'Initialize Entity' button to initialize it.Īfter this partition being initialized, it appears under the 'Unallocated Volumes' node: Now add hard disk and select type as SCSI and choose desired disk capacity. Now select hard disk and click on Add as shown below. Right click on your host and go to its setting.

ADDING MORE DISK SPACE TO LINUX VM INSTALL

If system-config-lvm is not installed, use this command to install it first: Steps to add new Hard disk to Virtual Host 1.

ADDING MORE DISK SPACE TO LINUX VM ISO

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytesĬalling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Step by step Step 1: Make sure you have a VDI disk image Step 2: Resize the VDI disk image Step 3: Attach the new VDI disk and the Ubuntu boot ISO image. From the VirtualBox dashboard go to the VM that you wish. Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1045-2610, default 2610):ĭisk /dev/sda: 21.4 GB, 21474836480 bytesĢ55 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders The first thing to do when resizing a disk is to get the correct disk name which you will be modifying. Here are the commands and results inside fdisk:įirst cylinder (1045-2610, default 1045): Then you are asked for the last cylinder, the end of the drive is default so you can just press Enter again. Now you are asked which cylinder the partition should start at, the beginning of the drive is the default, so just hit Enter. After adding the Hard disk to VMware/vSphere/vCenter it looks like this. In the vSphere Client inventory, right-click the virtual machine and select Edit Settings. It asks you for a partition number, enter '3'. Log into the vCenter Server using the vSphere Client. Then press 'p' to create a primary partition. Open virtual machine's settings, select hard disk and click 'Utilities' button, and select 'Expand': The logical volume /dev/maper/VolGroup00 only has 16% free space. The lvm partition mount as /, and cannot be resized by partition tools such as partition magic or gparted.īefore expansion, as shown below, we were almost run out of disk space:

So even if you make serious mistake during the process, you still have all your data.īy default installation, linux virtual machine (Fedora, RHEL or CentOS) has two partitions, one for swapping, and the other one is a lv partition.

ADDING MORE DISK SPACE TO LINUX VM HOW TO

How to expand disk capacity for vmware linux virtual machineįirst, make a clone of the vmware linux virtual machine. How to expand disk capacity for vmware linux virtual machin

Adding more disk space to linux vm