So I decided to write this post after I spent some good time trying to expand my virtual image's hard disk (HD) successfully!
I don't guarantee that this is the right or shortest way to do it but at least for me, this is the way it worked out.
1st: Power off your image and make sure you backup your image before trying this out.
2nd: Remove any snapshot of your image. Make sure you have no files in your image directory looking like
disk-000001.vmdk because this means you still have a snapshot not removed. If you leave out any snapshot, expanding your hard disk will not work out correctly.
3rd: Make sure you have enough space on your original hard disk according to the size you want to expand your image's hard disk with.
4th: Open a console on windows and browse to your image's directory.
5th: Use the command:
vmware-vdiskmanager -x **GB ***.vmdk example: "C:\Program Files\VMware Server\vmware-vdiskmanager" -x 40GB disk.vmdk
6th: When it prints out
Grow: 100% done. open your image and create a logical ext3 partition using the extra space you assigned to your image's hard disk by using any tool like
Gparted for example.
7th: Open
Menu > System > Administration > Logical Volume Management tool in RedHat. Go to
Unitialized Entries and choose your new partition and
Initialize Entity. Then go to
Unallocated Volumes select the one your initialized and
Add to existing Volume Group.
8th: Go to
Volume Groups and select the one you want to expand then click on
Edit Properties and press on
Use remaining then finish with
OK.
Congrats!! Now you should see that your hard disk is expanded and to make sure you can use the
df -h command in a root terminal.
