Comments on: HOWTO: Guest Virtual Machine disk extend online with Debian/Ubuntu, LVM2 and VMWare ESX

By: Kura

Kura — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:09:00 +0000

Shmax123,

Interesting. It must be a Red Hat-based thing where partprobe is required, on Debian and Ubuntu I’ve never needed to do it, the partitions are created and appear in /dev are usable straight away.

But all-in-all it’s not massively different. Can’t say I’m a fan of RH or how it does things, which is why you won’t see many blog articles I write which are written for RH systems.

By: Shmax123

Shmax123 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:22:00 +0000

in RHEL/OEL 5 i figured out that only # echo “- – -” > /sys/class/scsi_disk/0:0:0:0/device/rescan works. also after cfdisk it is necessary to do partprobe. Only this helped me to extend root volume on-the-fly )

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:12:05 +0000

Concise and very helpful. Well done.

By: Kura

Kura — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:06:04 +0000

You shouldn’t need a reboot if it’s a new drive but glad I could help.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:45:23 +0000

Saved my bacon my friend. Just add a reboot between partitioning and creating and it is golden. At least Ubuntu needs a reboot otherwise it won’t find the part.

Thanks again for the time!

By: Kura

Kura — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:30:57 +0000

Glad my article helped. =)

By: Tygh

Tygh — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:44:19 +0000

This was fantastic. Made my job easy.

By: Kura

Kura — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:17:36 +0000

Ross: I recently tried and failed to do this and lost my vm. This tutorial helped me get my new vm sorted in no time! Win.

Glad to help. =)

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:07:34 +0000

I recently tried and failed to do this and lost my vm. This tutorial helped me get my new vm sorted in no time! Win.

By: bertzijngedacht

bertzijngedacht — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:55:03 +0000

Superb tutorial. This really helpt me. This is going in or KB!!

Thank you very much!!