Re: Extending Debian partition under VMware
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:28:57AM +0100, Jorge Expósito wrote:
> I've extended the virtual drive on VMware from 7 Gb to 8 Gb.
> Rebooted my guest Debian with Gparted and extended the drive with the 1
> extra Gb successfuly.
> Rebooting again and starting my virtualized Debian I make a fdisk -l and
> it seems that the extra Gb is actually there.
>
> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
> /dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 497664 243M 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 501758 16777215 16275458 7,8G 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 501760 16777215 16275456 7,8G 8e Linux LVM
These are the underlying partitions...
> But if I run df -h it seems that it is not.
>
> S.ficheros Tamaño Usados Disp Uso% Montado en
> /dev/dm-0 6,3G 4,8G 1,1G 82% /
> udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
> tmpfs 202M 5,6M 196M 3% /run
> tmpfs 504M 4,0K 504M 1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock
> tmpfs 504M 0 504M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> /dev/sda1 236M 32M 192M 15% /boot
and these are the filesystems built inside those partitions.
> What's the problem?
The next step is to resize the filesystem to fill the partition.
Each filesystem type has a specific tool to do that; for
ext2/3/4, the tool is resize2fs. Some filesystem types are not
resizable.
Use `mount` to figure out what filesystem types are in use.
-dsr-
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