How to resize a VMware Linux virtual disk?

On your host

resize the virtual device’s virtual disk (example for create 10GB disk).

command: vmware-vdiskmanager -x 10GB myvirtual.vmdk

On your virtual server

resize filesystem (example for default instalation of CentOS 5).

Check filesystem data

command: df -h

1. Add a new partition

   command: fdisk /dev/sda

   (p – print the partition table; n – add a new partition; t – change a partition’s system id, e.g. 8e Linux LVM; w – write table to disk and exit)

2. Reboot

   command: reboot

3. Create physical volume

   command: pvcreate /dev/sda3

4. Extend volume group

   command: vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda3

5. Extend logical volume

   command: lvextend -l +100%free /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /dev/sda3

6. Resize filesystem

   command: resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

Check filesystem data

command: df -h