Category Archives: File Systems
Extending VMWare ESX 4.1 root logical volume disk size on Scientific Linux / CentOS /RedHat 6 guest operating system
I use VMWare fusion for development and my infrastructure partner uses VMWare ESX 4.1 to host one of my virtualised servers running Scientific Linux 6.x. Recently I needed some extra storage and so we tried to increase the root partition … Continue reading
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Tagged CentOS, df, ESX, extend, fdisk, logical volume, lvextend, Partition, pvcreate, RedHat, resize2fs, root, root partition, Scientific Linux, vgdisplay, vgextend, VMWare, Volume Group
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Mounting a new disk partition using CentOS
First, we need to create the directory that we want to mount the new partition to (otherwise known as the mounting point): Then we edit and add a line to /etc/fstab defining the parameters for the new mount: Add a … Continue reading
