How To ResizeGrow VMware Linux Disks and Partitions. Updated January 1. Update 0. 11. 62. OqgHGzFw2g/UtfWh_y19DI/AAAAAAAAGFI/lGO7h4e8z_8/s1600/How-to-install-VMware-Tools-on-Ubuntu-10.04-in-VMware-Workstation-8-02.jpg' alt='Vmware Tools Virtual Cd-Rom Image Download' title='Vmware Tools Virtual Cd-Rom Image Download' />A hard disk image is interpreted by a Virtual Machine Monitor as a system hard disk drive. IT administrators and software developers administer them through offline. This method does not work for LVM partitions, as discovered in the comments. In this article, I will show how to resize a VMware disk if you didnt make it large enough when it was created. Furthermore, I will show how to resize partitions following the disk augmentation using Open. SUSE 1. 0. 2 as an example. You will even be able to resize the Linux root partition that is mounted and is normally unmountable. The story this is simple you made a VMware disk without thinking ahead and now it ran out of space. Vmware Tools Virtual Cd-Rom Image Download' title='Vmware Tools Virtual Cd-Rom Image Download' />Here you have a few options, the most notable ones being create another disk and mount it or grow the existing disk and resize the existing partitions. The first option is trivial, so lets explore the 2nd one. Backup the existing VMware disk file by copying it somewhere safe. Grow the VMware disk file note that Im using Windows in this step because my host system is Windows XP. In order to do this, use the vmware vdiskmanager. VMware and most likely sits in C Program FilesVMwareVMware Workstation. Vmware Tools Virtual Cd-Rom Image Download' title='Vmware Tools Virtual Cd-Rom Image Download' />If the target size of the new disk is 1. GB, issue the following command vmware vdiskmanager. Gb YOURDISK. vmdkvmware vdiskmanager. Gb YOURDISK. vmdkThe disk will crunch for a bit and hopefully happiy finish with Grow 1. Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches. Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches are intelligent virtual machine access switches designed for VMware vSphere vSphere 4. Getting following message at the time of connecting VMware ESXi 5. VMware vSphere Client 5. Miss Pole Dance Torrent there. Windows 8 workstation. The. Now the maximum disk space has been increased to 1. GB. At this point, all partitions remain the same size, with a bunch of unpartitioned free space added at the end of the disk. Now you can boot the guest OS Open. SUSE 1. 0. 2 in my example and use some magical utility to resize your partitions. In Ya. ST, for instance, you would go to System Partitioner. You can resize pretty much any partition that can be unmounted unmount it beforehand and never try to repartition a mounted one. That represents a problem if you, like me, want to grow the root partition. Still with me Then lets go to the next step. In order to repartition or resize a root partition, I will use a Live. CD of another OS. Or even better, a Live. CD that lives and breathes resizing things left and right. Im talking about the GParted Live CD from http gparted. Since a Live. CD is an operating system on its own loaded into RAM, it wont need to mount any of your existing partitions. Theres a bug with the latest version 0. GParted from seeing any partitions in VMware systems at all, but 0. Download the ISO image, right click on the CDDVD icon in the lower right part of the VMware window and click Edit. Then change the Connection to Use ISO image and browse to the freshly downloaded GParted ISO. This will effectively mount the image without having to burn it onto a CD. Reboot the guest OS. Quickly press F2 on the VMware preboot load screen to enter the virtual VMware BIOS. Go to the Boot tab and bring the CD ROM drive to the top by scrolling to it and clicking repeatedly. Now save and exit. The next time the OS tries to boot, it will first try to load the Live. CD, which is exactly what we want. GParted should load after a few minutes where everything should be very straightforward. The screenshots here may help understand what Im talking about. Fiddle with the settings, increase the root partition size, click Apply, and go have a few beers because this may take a while to finish. When it does, so are we, as we now have successfully grown the root partition. Optionally revert the steps in part 4a and 4b. Reboot into the guest OS again. Enjoy all the new extra space. This concludes the article. Feel free to leave any questions or comments. Artem Russakovskii is a San Francisco programmer, blogger, and future millionaire that last part is in the works. Follow Artem on Twitter Artem. R or subscribe to the RSS feed. In the meantime, if you found this article useful, feel free to buy me a cup of coffee below.