Linux VM online disk expansion
Occasionally, there is a need to expand disk assigned to some Linux virtual machine, depending on infrastructure or service provided inside datacenter. Personally, I liked feature inside Windows OS where, after you resize HDD through virtual machine settings, using Disk management tool you have easy option just to do an online expansion, without rebooting or something similar. For most of the time similar action, at least from my side on Linux based VMs, was performed using reboot operation and then disk expansion process. Particular commands needed to expand disk inside Linux VMs are very well explained on following links: extending a logical volume (LVM) in a Linux virtual machine - Red Hat/CentOS example, or increasing the size of a Linux ext3 virtual machine disk . useful KB if you need to create new disk on existing Linux VM, for test/lab purpose, before trying below process - LINK I would like to introduce couple of new o...