Extend LVM partition in CentOS 7/8 under VmWare

11/06/2020 admin Linux, News, Uncategorized, VMWare

1. Add more space on the disk in VmWare console.
2. Run cfdisk and check that you see free space after /dev/sda5.
3. In my case there are /dev/sda4 as extended partition and /dev/sda5 as LVM2 partition in extended. Remember start sectors for /dev/sda4 and sda5.
4. Delete /dev/sda5. Don’t worry – your data will be OK.
5. Delete /dev/sda4.
6. Create /dev/sda4 as extended partition with full space.
7. Create /dev/sda5 and change type to LVM (8e).
8. Check the start sectors – must be the same as before.
9. Write changes.
10. Exit from cfdisk.
11. Run pvresize /dev/sda5.
12. Run lvextend -r cl/root /dev/sda5. (-r means you resize the file system too).
13. Profit!

P.S.: In Ubuntu 18.04 with GPT table I had to fix the disk/partition with gdisk /dev/sdaX. Just make write and it will correct the error. Then you can see it in cfdisk and resize a partition there. Then run resize2fs /dev/sdaX

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