OS4X VMware virtualized image - expand HDD - Revision history

Admin: /* expand /dev/sda1 */

2014-10-20T19:37:21Z

expand /dev/sda1

2014-10-20T19:37:09Z

minimize /dev/sda2

2014-10-20T19:36:54Z

move swap partition

2014-10-20T19:36:41Z

expand /dev/sda2

2014-10-20T19:36:27Z

verify new partition schema

2014-10-20T19:35:41Z

2014-10-20T19:34:47Z

2014-10-20T19:33:22Z

2014-10-20T19:31:13Z

2014-10-20T19:27:40Z

Apple changes

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 After that, click on "Resize / Move", the window closes and this step will be added to the task list.
-==== expand /dev/sda1 ====
+==== Expand /dev/sda1 ====
 Select the partition /dev/sda1 ("ext4" filesystem), right click and select "Resize/Move".

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 After that, click on "Resize / Move", the window closes and this step will be added to the task list.
-==== minimize /dev/sda2 ====
+==== Minimize /dev/sda2 ====
 Select the partition /dev/sda2 ("extended" filesystem), right click and select "Resize/Move".

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 After that, click on "Resize / Move", the window closes and this step will be added to the task list.
-==== move swap partition ====
+==== Move swap partition ====
 Select the swap partition /dev/sda5, right click and select "Resize/Move".

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 The following steps are required:
-==== expand /dev/sda2 ====
+==== Expand /dev/sda2 ====
 Select the partition /dev/sda2 ("extended" filesystem), right click and select "Resize/Move".

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 [[Image:VMware FusionScreenSnapz022.png]]
-==== verify new partition schema ====
+==== Verify new partition schema ====
 After having changed everything successfully, a partition table like this may greet you:

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 All steps documented here assume that your virtualization environment supports disk expansion, modern solutions such as these of VMWare or Parallels offer comfortable ways to do such tasks.
-The partition growing can be done in various ways. In this documentation we recomment to use gparted, a graphical tool to manage partition schemas.
+The partition growing can be done in various ways. In this documentation we recomment to use gparted, a graphical tool to manage partition schemas. Using gparted has the benefit that the used filesystem is expanded, too.
 == Planning ==

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	=== Shut down, remove CD/DVD ===		=== Shut down, remove CD/DVD ===
	Shut down the emergency Linux system. After that, remove the mounted CD/DVD drive from the VM. Optionally, change the boot order to boot from HDD again.		Shut down the emergency Linux system. After that, remove the mounted CD/DVD drive from the VM. Optionally, change the boot order to boot from HDD again.
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		+	=== Boot VM, verify filesystem ===
		+	After having started OS4Xvirtual again, you may check the local filesystem by invoking the following command:
		+	df -h /
		+
		+	The output may be as follows:
		+	root@os4xvirtual:~# df -h /
		+	Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
		+	/dev/disk/by-uuid/97de7f51-9be9-40cc-b6e0-767d2d080d50 77G 2.3G 71G 4% /

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	[[Image:VMware FusionScreenSnapz023.png]]		[[Image:VMware FusionScreenSnapz023.png]]
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		+	=== Shut down, remove CD/DVD ===
		+	Shut down the emergency Linux system. After that, remove the mounted CD/DVD drive from the VM. Optionally, change the boot order to boot from HDD again.

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	[[Image:VMware FusionScreenSnapz022.png]]		[[Image:VMware FusionScreenSnapz022.png]]
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		+	==== verify new partition schema ====
		+	After having changed everything successfully, a partition table like this may greet you:
		+
		+	[[Image:VMware FusionScreenSnapz023.png]]

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	[[Image:VMware FusionScreenSnapz020.png]]		[[Image:VMware FusionScreenSnapz020.png]]
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		+	[[Image:VMware FusionScreenSnapz022.png]]