Increasing storage on Ubuntu VM

[Damien Hull]

I didn't install the VMWare tools but I did expand the storage using the
SAN management tools and the VMWare client. According to ESXi the VM should
have more drive space.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 9:52 AM, William Scott Lockwood III <
scott at guppylog.com> wrote:

> 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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