How to expand a VMware vmdk and ext3 / ext4 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.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4,5,6
- VMware
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