Appliance:Adding disk space under VMware

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Adding more disk space (VMware)

If you're using the VMware ® version of this appliance, and you have VMware Workstation, you can add more disk space as follows:

These instructions assume you're using the VM ware image generated by rBuilder Online™. If you're using an image you created by installing from the ISO images produced by rBuilder, then the assumption about your disk device names, etc. will all be invalid.

1. Take a snapshot of your existing VM as a safety precaution.
2. Shutdown the VM cleanly.

Either use rPath Appliance Agent Web UI or login as root and issue:

shutdown -h now

3. Add the new virtual disk in Workstation's VM -> Settings menu.

Choose SCSI for the virtual hardware.

If the existing virtual drive is SCSI, use /dev/sdb in all instructions below. If the existing drive is IDE use /dev/sda. SCSI drives are mapped to /dev/ device entries in order, starting with /dev/sda then /dev/sdb /dev/sdc, etc.

Make it growable to whatever maximum you desire.

4. Startup the VM.
5. Login as root
6. Create a partition table on the new disk using fdisk. This is an interactive tool, so you're going to need to answer a few questions.

fdisk /dev/sdb 

• choose n for "new partition"
• choose p for "primary"
• type 1 for the partition number
• accept the default start and end options (hit Enter twice)
• choose w to "write the partition table"
7. Make a filesystem on the new partition

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1

8. Mount the filesystem on a temporary location

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

9. Copy all the /srv contents to the new partition

cp -rp /srv/* /mnt

10. Move the old contents out of the way

mkdir /srv.old; mv /srv/* /srv.old

11. Add a line to /etc/fstab to cause your new partition to be mounted at boot

Either use echo to append a line, or use vi to edit if you're comfortable with vi

echo '/dev/sdb1 /srv  ext3  defaults  1 1' >> /etc/fstab

12. Reboot

shutdown -r now

After rebooting, you can confirm that your disk setup now has the new disk on the /srv directory mount point by typing on the command line:

df -h

You should see something like

  Filesystem   Size   Used  Avail Use%  Mounted on
  /dev/sda1    512M   256M  256M   50%  /
  none         126M      0  126M    0%  /dev/shm
  /dev/sdb1    7.9G    73M  7.5G    1%  /srv

After confirming that the contents have all been copied correctly, you can remove the backup data:

rm -rf /srv.old