Klaus-Peter Schrage<kpschrage(a)gmx.de> wrote on 03.12.2008 08:54:
> That should basically do it, right? Any things which could go
wrong
> except for the odd typo when recreating the partition?
Ok, but as I can see, you'll end up with a new, larger /dev/sda1
and an
empty filesystem mounted on / (aside from a new swap). How do you want to
recover your data from your old virtual drive?
Actually, deleting a partition does not wipe it from disk. Fdisk will just
delete the entry from the partition table (well, it *should* not do
anything else to the partition, right). The /dev/sda1 is the first
partition on the virtual drive, so I can just recreate it with the same
starting and different end cylinder. Of course, no other changes must
happen to the drive while doing so.
What I did in your situation: After growing my virtual drive with
vmware-vdiskmanager I booted into the virtual machine with a GParted
bootable disk. With GParted I could resize the file system on / without
data loss.
Ok, thanks for the tip. That looks a lot easier than my own method.
—
/Alex