How to expand a VMware vmdk and ext3 / ext4 / xfs filesystem on RHEL?
Issue
- A filesystem is filling up and all extents in the volume group are used up. Need to expand the disk rather than add an additional disk, without taking the VM offline.
- How to expand a physical volume by expanding underlying VMDK disks?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4,5,6,7,8,9
- VMware
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