Comments on: Resize a LVM partition in a Debian VMWare VM https://jmorano.moretrix.com/2012/03/resize-lvm-partition-debian-vmware-vm/ Ramblings of an old-fashioned space cowboy Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: hesselro https://jmorano.moretrix.com/2012/03/resize-lvm-partition-debian-vmware-vm/#comment-4000 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:17:21 +0000 http://jmorano.moretrix.com/?p=694#comment-4000 Depending on your installation, you can also get a recovery shell from the grub menu, so you don’t need a CD. You will have to do the changes with the root filesystem mounted, which worked for me, except for fsck did not run. Was able to skip that step.

]]> By: Johnny Morano https://jmorano.moretrix.com/2012/03/resize-lvm-partition-debian-vmware-vm/#comment-511 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:38:02 +0000 http://jmorano.moretrix.com/?p=694#comment-511 In reply to Michiel.

Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: Michiel https://jmorano.moretrix.com/2012/03/resize-lvm-partition-debian-vmware-vm/#comment-510 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:19:37 +0000 http://jmorano.moretrix.com/?p=694#comment-510 You can also enlarge the existing partition with fdisk and use pvresize to resize the physical volume. That way, you don’t end up with several concatenated partitions.

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