That makes it very easy. VMware will let you grow the disk, which appends space to the end of the device. If you want to email me off list I'll give you my step by step procedure I use to grow filesystems in VMware.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rhelv5-list- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Marco Shaw > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 9:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Resizing root (no LVM) > > (Top posting) > > Thanks for the comments back. It seems this is possible after all. I > should have mentioned that this was a VMware VM guest, so I'll need to > research the FS increase based on that, and verify what kind of space > may still be available on the device/datastore. > > Marco > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Marco Shaw <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I haven't done sys admin in some time, and I just started a new job > > where I am doing it again. > > > > The story before (over 5 years ago) was that you couldn't resize root > > basically. Now with great stuff like LVM, it seems you can do some > > resizing from a boot CD and not have to tar/untar and hope for the > > best... > > > > Well, for whatever reason, I have a brand new RHEL5 machine, and they > > did *not* use LVM. So I guess I'm out of luck with doing a *simple* > > and "very likely to work" resize of root? > > > > Marco > > > > > > -- > *Microsoft MVP - Windows PowerShell > https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Marco.Shaw > *Co-Author - Sams Windows PowerShell Unleashed 2nd Edition > *Blog - http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
