Increasing storage on Ubuntu VM

[William Scott Lockwood III]

You need tools to fully automate that. Not using the tools (VMWares tools,
not the open source ones) doesn't ever end well.

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W Scott Lockwood III
GWB2009033817
On Sep 14, 2014 1:00 PM, "Damien Hull" <dhull at section9.us> wrote:

> 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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