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Extend LVM partition on VMWare guest / ESX | DotMana
I got same issue - ESX 4. Ended up solving my problem of "no free sectors available logical partition". Monitor, back-up and validate your DNS records. The new table will be used at the next reboot or after you run partprobe 8 or kpartx 8 Syncing disks.
Calling ioctl to re - read partition table. Finally perform lvk online resize to resize the logical volume so the data blocks will change and you are done.
Increasing size of “physical” disk with Logical Volumes on VMWare ESX
Niklas 05 Jan Metadata might have gotten corrupt and thus the volume cannot be added to your Volume Group. Comment Link Hi there, Good instruction but its not working for me. Thank you so much. And I know this is a few years old, but I am getting an error in the lvextend command. GRegg 1 1. Ex you very much. Wouter Wednesday, August 10, at Also worth noting these tools were not installed before installing lvm2.
This disk exists already, it is not new. Linux type Thursday, September 29, at Wim Melchers Friday, June 24, at Recreate this partition with exact the same starting sector but bigger in size.
However, now when I I try to create a new partition, I get: Meghan Calvo Wednesday, November 23, at Calling ioctl to re-read partition table.
virtualization - How to extend a Linux PV partition online after virtual disk growth - Server Fault
Mohamed Monday, December 12, at Comment Link Thank you mate, the only working tutorial I found on the internet! To increase the size of your VMware Virtual Machine, you need to do 2 major steps.
This is rather important step, because a disk that has been partitioned in 4 primary partitions already can not be extended any more. Now type t to change the partition type. My system is a Debian and I run rescan-scsi-bus. Eddie Friday, February 3, at es Then delete the partition that contains the LVM while still in fdisk. Device or resource busy.
My question was about extending an existing primary partition on disk without adding disk or partition or PV. Alexei Wednesday, August 30, at Thank you so much as i was having difficulty doing this. What we tend to do is add a 2nd vmware disk and use lvm to extend onto the new disk and reduce off the old if it is a replacement as this allows the whole process to happen live.
Dave Wednesday, August 10, at This would simplify things since there is no need to move data around, adjust configurations etc.
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