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Comment on Expand LVM disk on Linux in VMware by Ben

Ben — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:37:52 +0000

Thanks for the guide! It helped me a ton. A potentially easier approach could be to create a new virtual disk and add it to the LVM, instead of resizing the one you already have. But at any rate your guide worked for me – and I can report that using Mike Karolow’s suggestion is also successful. Thanks again!

Comment on Download VMware viclient by Roberto

Roberto — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:50:31 +0000

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Comment on Expand LVM disk on Linux in VMware by Mohammad Abu Nabhan

Mohammad Abu Nabhan — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:53:47 +0000

Thank you very much. Nice and easy and to the point. I just copied your commands and worked like a charm.

I really appreciate it.

Comment on Expand LVM disk on Linux in VMware by Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:31:40 +0000

Worked like a charm, many thanks and may God bless.

Comment on Expand LVM disk on Linux in VMware by Kiran Pathur

Kiran Pathur — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:15:37 +0000

Thanks Chris, your script really helped me. We are extending disk using LVM as mentioned above but instead of adding a new disk, we extend existing disk and create a partition on it and add to LVM. We always needed to reboot, so that the extra disk space is available. But Chris’s script really did it without rebooting. I have used forcerescan option and finally it boils down to the following
echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:1:0/device/rescan
Also after creating a partition, when we ran pvcreate /dev/sdb2 we got an exception saying that /dev/sdb2 in not recognized or filtered out. I ran partprobe and pvcreate worked afterwards without problems.

If you are adding a new disk, you can make it detected using following command:
echo “- – -” > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan

You might need to replace host0 with proper value.

Comment on Linux – Multiple FTP users, same directory, different permissions. by Vamsi

Vamsi — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:46:29 +0000

thanks , I just searched google and landed here
perfect guide..
whats the significance of changing local_umask to 0007

thanks

Comment on Download VMware viclient by Vesa

Vesa — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:06:15 +0000

Stupid that this “free” tool is not available from vmware directly. Thanks! saved alot of head scratching

Comment on Expand LVM disk on Linux in VMware by Atif

Atif — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:58:39 +0000

amazing….!! this is the only post available on google how to resize LVM.

Comment on Download VMware viclient by mgy

mgy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:01:10 +0000

Hi, thanks a lot, this was The Download of the Month for me!

Comment on Expand LVM disk on Linux in VMware by LaTouf

LaTouf — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:55:18 +0000

Thank you so very much !