May 29, 2012 by wingloon Comments Off on How To Install VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 5.0 Update 1 on CentOS 5.7 In this how to, I am going to share how to install VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 5.0 Update 1 (build 614080) on CentOS 5.7 32-bit hardware platform.
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I have already increased the size by going into VMWARE Workstation settings ->Hardisk to 34GB. But I cant able to relocate it inside the Ubunto running inside the VMware.
I want to increase the size of /dev/sda1
1 Answer
How to expand hard disk size using VMware:
To increase the virtual disk from the command line:
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- Open a command prompt. For more information, see how to open command prompt.
- Navigate to the product's installation directory. See how to do that
- Type
vmware-vdiskmanager -x 100Gb vm.vmdkand press Enter(Replace 100Gb with the actual size of virtual disk that you want. You can also specify Kb and Mb.)
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And, I guess you've tried this(from GUI):
- Select the virtual machine from the Inventory.
- Click Edit Virtual Machine Settings.
- Click Hard Disk.
- Click Utilities > Expand, enter the new size, then click Expand.
- Again, follow this one
How to expand hard disk size inside Ubuntu(using gparted tool):
What about expanding inside Ubuntu, I guess you should try gparted or similar tool. How to do that, go here
To open gparted do the following:
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- Install it by typing
sudo apt-get install gparted - Run it by pressing
Alt+F2, and type theregparted