Increasing storage on Ubuntu VM

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Sep 14, 2014 12:49 PM, "Damien Hull" <dhull at section9.us> wrote:
>
> Here's what I would like to do.
> 1. Increase the size of the root partition using LVM
>
> Here's what I have
> 1. Ubuntu 14.04 Server
> 2. ESXi 5.5
> 3. SAN
> 4. Started with 4GB of storage and expanded that to 10GB
> 6. Used the ESXi tools to increase the VMFS - all 10GB are used
> 7. Increased the drive size on the virtual machine settings - Thin
provisioned
>
> As far as I can tell everything should be working. Here's my problem.
> 1. Ubuntu doesn't see the physical size of the new drive
> 2. pvresize, pvscan, pvs are all reporting the old drive size of 4GB
>
>
> How do I get Ubunut to see the new physical drive size so I can increase
the size of my root file system?
>
> Thanks!

Do you have the most recent VMWare tools installed on the guest? Did you
expand the partition from the VMWare VCenter console?

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W Scott Lockwood III
GWB2009033817
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