How to expand a VMware vmdk and Ext4/XFS filesystem on RHEL?

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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 virtual machine offline.
  • How to expand a physical volume by expanding underlying .vmdk disks?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • VMware

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