VMware: Increase disk space of Linux VM

Increase disk space to desired size using the VM Client.

Login to the VM and restart the machine (init 6)

After restart go to fdisk (fisk /dev/sda or /dev/hda etc.)

Create new partition using fdisk, save and exit.

If an LVM is used then the newly created partition will be needed to added the the LVM.

Follow instructions below. Assume new partition is /dev/sda3 (4GB), volume group is VolGroup-00 and Logical volume is LogVol-100

pvcreate /dev/sda3

vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda3

lvextend -L +4G /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00