ESXi Ubuntu dynamically increases HDD without rebooting

ESXi Ubuntu dynamically increases HDD without rebooting

To expand the root partition without restarting the system by adding a new disk :

The first step is to open the Settings page of your virtual machine client, click on ' Add ' button and proceed to the next step.

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Select the configuration information that is required for the new disk, as shown in, select the size of the new disk and its type.

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Then go to the server and repeat the following command to scan your disk device to make the new disk visible in the system.

For i in ' Ls/sys/class/scsi_host/*/scan ';d o echo "---" > $i;d One

List the name of your SCSI device and set the value:

For i in ' Ls/sys/class/scsi_device/*/device/rescan ';d o echo 1 > $i;d One

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Once the new disk is visible, you can run the following command to create a new partition;

Fdisk/dev/sdb--->n-->1-->2048-->p-->wmkfs-t ext4/dev/sdbmkdir/datamount-t ext4/dev/sdb/data (Mount)

Get to /dev/sdb The UUID of this partition using command :blkid/dev/sdb

Cat << EOF >>/etc/fstabuuid= "f7dbec85-ec1e-4291-bf91-73587dc81855"/data ext4 defaults 0 0EOF

This article is from the "Patrick" blog, so be sure to keep this source http://patrick0715.blog.51cto.com/3681259/1812514

ESXi Ubuntu dynamically increases HDD without rebooting