{"id":1012,"date":"2020-06-17T04:24:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T04:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicktailor.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2022-10-21T11:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T11:30:30","slug":"how-to-increase-disk-size-on-virtual-scsi-drive-using-gpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/how-to-increase-disk-size-on-virtual-scsi-drive-using-gpart\/","title":{"rendered":"How to increase disk size on virtual scsi drive using gpart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1.<\/span>Login to VMware vSphere Client and shutdown<\/span> server VM <\/span>guest<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2.<\/span>Select<\/span> VM Guest <\/span>server and click \u201c<\/span>Edit virtual machine settings<\/span><\/strong>\u201d. Virtual Machine Properties window will appear. Under \u201cHardware\u201d, click Hard Disk 2 (which is \/data partition) and edit provision size to 200 GB as shown in below screenshot. <\/span>
\nPower ON <\/span>VM guest <\/span>after editing disk size.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"vsphere\"<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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3.<\/span>Take VM snapshot of<\/span> VM guest<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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4.<\/span>Log on to <\/span>VM Guest<\/span> using SSH client, like <\/span>PuTTy<\/span>, with \u201croot\u201d user.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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5.<\/span>List the SCSI devices using command \u2013 <\/span>cat \/proc\/<\/span>scsi<\/span>\/<\/span>scsi<\/span><\/strong>
\n\"disk7\"<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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6.<\/span>Run following command to see the name of the partition<\/span>
\nls -d \/sys\/block\/<\/span>sd<\/span>*\/device\/<\/span>scsi_device<\/span>\/* |awk -F \u2018[\/]\u2019 \u2018{print $4,\u201d- SCSI\u201d,$7}\u2019<\/span><\/strong>
\n\"disk8\"<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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7.<\/span>Run following commands to confirm the size of the SCSI disk for which you have increased size in step 4 has been updated by the following steps<\/span><\/div>\n
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1.<\/span>echo 1 > \/sys\/class\/<\/span>scsi_device<\/span>\/2\\:0\\:1\\:0\/device\/rescan<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2.<\/span>fdisk<\/span> -l | grep Disk<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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3.<\/span>df -h<\/span><\/strong>
\n\"disk9_1\"<\/span><\/strong>
\n\"disk9_2\"<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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8.<\/span>Stop <\/span>cron<\/span> and services using commands<\/span>
\nservice <\/span>crond<\/span> stop<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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9.<\/span>Unmount \u201c\/data\u201d partition using command \u2014 <\/span>umount<\/span> \/data<\/span><\/strong>
\nNote:<\/span><\/strong> If you observe \u201cDevice is busy\u201d error then make sure that your current session is not in \/data partition. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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10.<\/span>Perform following steps to grow added disk space of \/data partition based on partition type<\/span><\/div>\n

For <\/span>GPT<\/span><\/strong> partition type<\/span><\/p>\n

In this case <\/span>parted -l<\/span><\/strong> command will give below for \u201c<\/span>sdb<\/span>\u201d disk partition<\/span>
\n*****************************************************<\/span>
\nModel: VMware Virtual disk (<\/span>scsi<\/span>)<\/span>
\nDisk \/dev\/<\/span>sdb<\/span>: 215GB<\/span>
\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512B\/512B<\/span>
\nPartition Table: <\/span>gpt<\/span><\/strong>
\nNumber  Start   End    Size   File system  Name       Flags<\/span>
\n1      1049kB  215GB  <\/span>215GB<\/span>  <\/span>ext4<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>        Linux LVM  <\/span>lvm<\/span>
\n*****************************************************<\/span><\/p>\n

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4.<\/span>Execute command \u2014 <\/span>gdisk<\/span> \/dev\/<\/span>sdb<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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5.<\/span>Type \u201c<\/span>p<\/span><\/strong>\u201d to print the partition<\/span>
\n\"gpt_p\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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6.<\/span>Type \u201c<\/span>d<\/span><\/strong>\u201d to delete partition<\/span>
\n\"gpt_d\"\/<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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7.<\/span>Type \u201c<\/span>p<\/span><\/strong>\u201d to check if partition is deleted<\/span>
\n\"gpt_p1\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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8.<\/span>Type \u201c<\/span>n<\/span><\/strong>\u201d to create new partition<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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9.<\/span>Type \u201c<\/span>1<\/span><\/strong>\u201d as partition number<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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10.<\/span>Press \u201c<\/span>Enter<\/span><\/strong>\u201d twice<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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11.<\/span>Type \u201c<\/span>8E00<\/span><\/strong>\u201d as GUID<\/span>
\n\"gpt_n\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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12.<\/span>Type \u201c<\/span>p<\/span><\/strong>\u201d to check newly added partition<\/span>
\n\"gpt_p2\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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13.<\/span>Type \u201c<\/span>w<\/span><\/strong>\u201d to alter partition table<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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14.<\/span>Type \u201c<\/span>Y<\/span><\/strong>\u201d to continue<\/span>
\n\"gpt_w\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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15.<\/span>To mount \/data partition run command \u2013 <\/span>mount \/data<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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16.<\/span>To resize the file system run command \u2013 <\/span>resize2fs \/dev\/sdb1 <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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17.<\/span>To check increased disk space run command \u2013 <\/span>df -h<\/span><\/strong>
\n\"gpt_df\"<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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1.Login to VMware vSphere Client and shutdown server VM guest. 2.Select VM Guest server and click \u201cEdit virtual machine settings\u201d. Virtual Machine Properties window will appear. Under \u201cHardware\u201d, click Hard Disk 2 (which is \/data partition) and edit provision size to 200 GB as shown in below screenshot. Power ON VM guest after editing disk size. 3.Take VM snapshot ofRead More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,125,138,126,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centos","category-diskstuff","category-linux","category-scsi-stuff","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}