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    Adding a new disk to a VMWare Virtual Machine in Linux

    I’ve been using VMWare for a while now and I always get asked some common questions about it. One of those is how to add a new virtual disk to a Linux virtual machine. So in response to that, here are the steps to adding a new SCSI based virtual disk to a CentOS Linux virtual machine. The steps for adding a disk to a Windows machine is very much the same except you would use the Disk Management utility from the Control Panel.

    Step 1: Open virtual machine settings
    Select your virtual machine, as you can see from the photo I selected the Infrastructure virtual machine. Next press the “Edit virtual machine settings’ to open the Virtual Machine Settings dialog.
    Select your Virtual Machine

    Step 2: Add new hardware
    From the “Virtual Machine Settings” dialog select the “Add…” button at the bottom of the screen. From this dialog you can also modify how much memory you dedicate to the machine when it boots.
    Virtual Machine Settings Dialog - /> Select the Add… button” src=”http://www.matttopper.com/images/blog/adding_disk_to_vmware/2.jpg” /></p> <p>Step 3: Start hardware wizard<br /> Next we will walk through the “Add Hardware Wizard” the process makes it very simple to add additional hardware to a predefined virtual machine. From this screen we want to select the “Next >” button.<br /> <img alt=

    Step 4: Select new hard disk
    From this screen we can see the many types of hardware we can add to a virtual machine. You can emulate just about any piece of hardware that one can expect in a modern operating system. It definitely makes testing with different configurations and devices much easier. For our example we want to select “Hard Disk” and then select the “Next >” button.
    Select Hard Disk from the Add Hardware Wizard

    Step 5: Create the virtual disk
    In the next screen we see the three options for adding a new disk. We can “Create a new virtual disk”, this will create a brand new disk on the guest operating system. The second option, “Use an existing virtual disk”, allows you to mount a disk from another virtual machine. I like to do this with my “source” drive. I have one virtual disk that I’ve made that has all the Oracle and Linux CDs on it, that way I can just mount it to the machine I need when I have to do a new install instead of copying the binaries I need across disks, its definitely a big time saver. The last option is to “Use a physical disk”, this allows you to mount a local physical disk to the operating system. This option is akin to NFS mounting a drive to a virtual machine. To add a new disk we select the “Create a new virtual disk” option and select the “Next >” button.
    Create a New Virtual Disk from the Add Hardware Wizard

    Step 6: Select type of disk
    Next we want to select the type of disk. I’ve been using VMWare for a long time and agree that the recommended Virtual Disk Type should be SCSI. I don’t know why, but I’ve had much better success with the SCSI virtual disks than the IDE ones. So in this step we want to select “SCSI (Recommended)” and the “Next >” button.
    Select Disk Type from Add Hardware Wizard

    Step 7: Set disk size and options
    Now we want to set the size of the disk we are creating. One of the nice features of VMWare is that you don’t have to allocate all of the disk when you create it. So if you create a 40 GB disk it doesn’t have to take it all right away, the disk will grow as your virtual machine needs it. I will say this is a big performance hit you take when the disk has to extend, but for most applications its OK. Also, I will warn that if the virtual disk grows and there is no physical disk left on the host operating system you will see a catastrophic failure and in most cases both the host and guest operating systems lock up and become unusable. (Don’t say I didn’t warn you) Lastly, you can split the files into 2GB sizes, while this isn’t necessary, it just makes all the disks much easier to manage and move around. For this step we want to set our disk size (12 GB in this case), I chose not to allocate the disk space right now (the machine has a 300 GB drive and has only 20 GB on it) and Split disk into 2 GB files.
    Specify Disk Capacity from the Add Hardware Wizard

    Step 8: Name the disk file
    This is actually pretty simple in that you decide what you want to physically call the disk and where to put it. .vmdk is the extension for VMWare virtual disks. After we name the disk we can select the “Finish” button which adds the disk to the virtual machine.
    Name the Virtual Disk File from the Add Hardware Wizard

    Step 9: Ensure new disk exists
    So now we can see that the new disk has been added to the “Virtual Machine Settings” within the selected virtual machine. From here the disk acts just like it would if you added a new disk to a standalone server. So we select the “OK” button to continue.
    Review Virtual Machine Settings for the newly created disk

    Step 10: Boot the virtual machine
    From here we just start the virtual machine like we would normally, either by selecting the button on the toolbar or selecting the “Start this virtual machine” link.
    Start the Virtual Machine

    Step 11: Virtual machine start up
    The machine boots normally as it would any other time.
    Booting Virtual Machine...

    Step 12: Create the Partition
    After we’ve logged in and accessed a terminal window as root (or another user with root/sudo privs) we first want to run fdisk on the newly created drive. In Linux the first SCSI drive is sda, the second sdb, the third sdc, etc. since this was the second SCSI drive we added to the system, the device is known as /dev/sdb
    The first command we want to run is fdisk /dev/sdb (NOTE: Thanks to everyone that caught my typo here) this utility works very much like the DOS utility of the old days and allows you to create and manage partitions. To create a new partition we enter the command n to create a new partition. This is going to be a primary partition p, and the first partition number 1. Because I want this disk to consume the full 12 GB I specified earlier we start at the first cylinder and end it at the last cylinder. We then want to write the partition table with the new partition we have just created so we enter the command w which writes the new table and exits fdisk.
    Create new partition with fdisk

    Step 13: Format the partition
    Now that we’ve create the partition, we now want to format the first with the new file system. I’ve decided to use ext3 filesystem for this disk, ext3 provides all the features of the classic ext2 file system plus journaling which helps to prevent disk corruption in the event of an improper shutdown and speeds up the recovery process. For a good overview of Linux standard file systems check out this article: http://linux.org.mt/article/filesystems So, to format the new partition we enter the command mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1. This command makes a new files system with the type t ext3 on the /dev/sdb1 partition, this is the first partition on the sdb disk.
    Create new filesystem in the virtual machine

    Step 14: Create the mount point
    Determine where you want to add the new virtual disk you’ve created. I like to create a partition specifically for all the software I install after the basic Linux install called /software to do that we run mkdir /software, just a simple make directory command. Once that is complete we then want to mount the newly created partition. Because we haven’t added the partition to the /etc/fstab yet we have to mount it manually. To do that we run mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /software. To break down this command we run mount with the ext3 filesystem type, the partition /dev/sdb1 to the directory /software. Pretty simple and straight forward. To check that the partition is properly mounted we run df -k which shows us the mounted partitions and the amount of available space.
    Create new mount point and mount the new drive

    Step 15: Open the fstab file
    The fstab file holds all of the used disks and partitions, and determines how they are supposed to be used by the operating system. So we edit the file to add the newly created partition

    http://www.matttopper.com/images/blog/adding_disk_to_vmware/15.jpg

    Step 16: Modify the fstab for the new partition
    After we open the fstab file in the previous step we add the following line:
    /dev/sdb1 /software ext3 defaults 1 1
    The first column is the partition name, the second is the default mount point, the third is the filesystem type. The fourth is the mount options, in this case I used default which mounts the drive rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser and asynchronous. The 5th and 6th options are for the dump and fsck options. If dump is set to 1 the filesystem is marked to be backed up, if you are going to have sensitive material on the drive its a good idea to set it to 1. If fsck is set to greater than 1, then the operating system uses the number to determine in what order fsck should be run during start up. If it is set to 0 it will be ignored such as in the case of a cdrom drive since its a solid state disk. For more information on the fstab file check out this article: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html
    Lastly, we write and quit the file with the :wq command.
    Editing of the fstab

    So now that the fstab has been written the drive will be mounted and unmounted when the machine is either started or shutdown. So there you have it, the quick and dirty process for adding a brand new disk to a virtual machine. Until next time…

    Published at Sunday, May 7th, 2006 @ 9:30 pm Category General, Technology, VMWare
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    126 Responses to “Adding a new disk to a VMWare Virtual Machine in Linux”

    1. Gary Clift Says:
      June 16th, 2006 at 1:59 pm

      Matt,

      Thank you for this tutorial. Well done!

      g

    2. Elizabeth Reiter Says:
      June 22nd, 2006 at 3:55 pm

      Matt,
      Thanks so much. I just got some vmware images and
      needed to understand and add some space. Your notes are
      great. They really helped!
      E

    3. Ben Langhals Says:
      June 23rd, 2006 at 9:01 am

      Matt – this tutorial was exactly what I needed, right down to the tip about using the same virtual disk file in different machines for the software I have to install. Nice work!
      Ben

    4. Ralph Says:
      July 8th, 2006 at 3:12 pm

      Not too bad – did exactly what I expected and was welcome. Fonts and picture sizes and overall layout could be improved.

      Thanks!

    5. Mayuresh Phadke Says:
      August 22nd, 2006 at 11:24 pm

      Matt – Thanks a lot for the tutorial. It helped me a lot.

    6. Mike Says:
      September 15th, 2006 at 7:38 pm

      Great tutorial, I thought I would have issues mounting being in vmware but just like the typical linux install…and btw fonts and pics are great ;)

    7. Chiradeep Chhaya Says:
      September 28th, 2006 at 8:05 am

      Hi Matt,

      Excellent Guide!! One of the very few tutorials that actually are concise enough to be followed and accurate enough to work!!

      Great job!

    8. Septal Cellulitis Says:
      October 3rd, 2006 at 8:12 am

      Like what you have to say. Your blog makes good since to me.

    9. suresh Says:
      October 3rd, 2006 at 10:36 pm

      Matt,

      That was a wonderful and indeed a great tutorial. Hope more will come !!!

    10. Tim Says:
      November 12th, 2006 at 1:35 pm

      Thanks, the right answer at the right time. Thank you for the carefully created tutorial and references.

    11. Laxman Says:
      November 12th, 2006 at 10:31 pm

      Amazing… !! 10/10 … great explaination… I manage to add the required space using this example.

    12. Janell Says:
      December 20th, 2006 at 8:29 pm

      Thank you so much! I’m new to linux and after I added the virtual disk via vmware it wasn’t showing up, and I just wasn’t understanding where the heck it was! Very helpful

    13. Sheenu Bansal Says:
      December 28th, 2006 at 6:19 am

      Hi Matt,

      this guide was really helpful than anything else..
      thanks:)
      :)

    14. Al Says:
      December 28th, 2006 at 1:41 pm

      This is a great article. 11 out of 10

    15. AlanB Says:
      January 24th, 2007 at 7:19 am

      What an awesome tutorial. Absolutely the walk-thru I needed.

      One minor typo:
      Step 12 states, “The first command we want to run is fdisk /dev/hdb …”
      I had to run ‘fdisk /dev/sdb’ and the rest was perfectly golden!

      Thanks so much!
      AlanB

    16. mo Says:
      March 18th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

      Thank you very much for the awesome tutorial! This is just what I was looking for!

    17. Phong Nguyen Says:
      June 24th, 2007 at 12:43 pm

      Thanks for your instruction.
      It’s really helpful!

    18. EmmanuelB Says:
      July 3rd, 2007 at 11:45 pm

      This is awesome. This is exactly what I was looking for. I really appreciate it.

    19. Alec Says:
      July 11th, 2007 at 3:38 pm

      Great work, it’s really help and same lots of time. Very appreciated.

      thanks so much
      Alec

    20. Qiang Says:
      July 19th, 2007 at 12:54 am

      Thank you so much

    21. Ne0 Says:
      August 1st, 2007 at 12:52 pm

      Really nice, thank you very much.
      I’m sure you wont mind if i post a spanish version of this tutorial in my blog (with the corresponding credits)

      –>
      Keep it simple

    22. Lukas Says:
      August 3rd, 2007 at 6:20 am

      Thanks a lot for the great tutorial. This is exactly what I needed. I was glad to find very clear instructions on how to proceed AND some background info to learn what it is all about.

    23. ka007 Says:
      August 22nd, 2007 at 6:07 pm

      Awsome tutorial! First time I have added a disk to a linux distro, and the process was painless following the steps described above. Your blog is definately being bookmarked for future reference :-)

    24. Ralf Steffler Says:
      August 23rd, 2007 at 12:29 am

      Hello Matt,

      great article.
      Is there a way to add a virtual disk,
      without booting the VM ?
      We are running a HA system with minimum downtime.

      Thanks !

      P.S.:
      On HP-Ux, I think “ioscan” would work.

      Best wishes
      Ralf Steffler

    25. dave Says:
      September 2nd, 2007 at 8:16 am

      HI Matt,
      Thanks for the post. I have two questions for you.
      1.On your step 12, you did “fdisk /dev/sdb”. My understanding is you have had “/dev/sda” as your “Hard Disk (SCSI: 0:0)”. Therefore, “/dev/sdb” is your “Hard Disk (SCSI: 0:1)” that you newly created. Is it right?

      2.Still step 12, when you did “n” to add a new partition, the “First cylinder” is 1, but the “Last cylinder” is default 1566. I know you created 12GB second hard disk. Why the “Last cylinder = 1566 ” is related a 12GB hard drive?

      Thanks for your attention.
      I look forward to receiving your reply.

      Dave

    26. Geoffrey Phipps Says:
      September 11th, 2007 at 6:22 am

      Thank you very much, beats the pants off the official help with vmware server.

    27. Gaurav Says:
      September 11th, 2007 at 2:39 pm

      Matt,
      Thanks for this tutorial Matt. This really helped me a lot.

    28. Alex Says:
      September 18th, 2007 at 3:25 am

      Hi Matt!

      Many thanks for your clear tutorial!

      Regards,

      –
      Alex

    29. UbuNoob Says:
      October 17th, 2007 at 9:37 pm

      After all that searching I finally found what I was looking for. Thanks Heaps!!! Just what I wanted

    30. Ankur Says:
      November 5th, 2007 at 8:35 pm

      Hi Matt!

      Awesome ! Big help. Thanks!!!

    31. Wim Says:
      November 15th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

      Thanks very much for great tutorial.

      Wim

    32. Charles Says:
      November 15th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

      Simply follow the steps and all done.

      Excellent instruction.

      Thanks,
      Charles

    33. Suren Says:
      November 21st, 2007 at 7:56 pm

      Matt -Great!!! Thank you very much for this wonderful tutorial

      Regards
      -Suren

    34. Dan Says:
      November 28th, 2007 at 10:58 am

      B’H’

      Hello,
      I’m from Paris.
      You know what ? Thank you very much. It’s very clear, and easy to realise. Congratulations !!!!
      Many thanks for your help.
      It works perfecty.

    35. Ashok Says:
      December 4th, 2007 at 8:14 am

      Greate tutorial. After couple of weeks of skimming the internet, finally I got to know this site and my problem is solved now

    36. Jacob Says:
      December 28th, 2007 at 5:53 pm

      Thank you very much.

    37. Fernando Fonseca Says:
      January 11th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

      Greate job. Thank you very much.
      Best regards,
      Fernando

    38. Udham Singh Says:
      January 18th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

      Thanks Matt…This was exactly what i was looking for…Kudos to you

    39. N Thorne Says:
      January 21st, 2008 at 2:50 am

      Thanks for your tutorial, been a long time since I had to modify disks and never on a VMware machine, just the crash course I needed.

    40. Maria Camila Gomez-Silva Says:
      January 21st, 2008 at 3:47 pm

      This was really helpful!
      I have a virtual machine running OpenSuSE 10.2 and the procedure worked just fine!

      Thanks from Colombia :)

    41. Rashmi Says:
      January 23rd, 2008 at 12:40 am

      Hello,

      This is an awesome tutorial prepared by you. Thanks a ton… this was really helpful.

      Regards,
      Rashmi

    42. Hoc Ngo Says:
      January 28th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

      Excellent tutorial! Your instructions are very accurate and to the point. This helps save a lot of time for me and other folks, I’m sure.

      Thanks a lot.

      Hoc

    43. RishiD Says:
      February 19th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

      Hey, Just wanted to say thanks for the tutorial. Worked great.

    44. Stan Raichlen Says:
      February 27th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

      I agree: Nice complete and very useful tutorial. I have found several sites previously, but none of them met my needs prior to this site. Thanks!

    45. Rick Karcher Says:
      February 29th, 2008 at 9:45 am

      Thanks Matt !! Great Tutorial , could It be possible to replace for example the /var partition and to add a new /var with more space and copy all the content to the new /var partition ? Thanks , Regards .

    46. Eric Says:
      March 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm

      Thanks Matt. I kinda knew what I had to do but couldn't see the /dev/sdb that I added. I rebooted the server and it showed up. It's always nice to find a howto for EXACTLY what you are doing. :)

    47. Albin Says:
      March 5th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

      Thanks Matt. It's exactly what I need.

    48. Geoffrey Says:
      March 6th, 2008 at 11:05 am

      useful tutorial, thanks !

    49. Josef Says:
      March 24th, 2008 at 12:37 am

      Thanks for this Matt. It is very helpful. God bless!

    50. Meng Says:
      April 20th, 2008 at 8:46 am

      Thans very very much… Your tutorial very very helpful

    51. Jack Says:
      April 21st, 2008 at 7:20 pm

      THANKS!

    52. Ntseh Says:
      April 22nd, 2008 at 4:53 am

      Sweet! Easy to read and follow.

    53. Gus Says:
      April 28th, 2008 at 5:43 am

      Another thank-you, a clear and very useful tutorial.

    54. sfloss Says:
      May 2nd, 2008 at 8:06 am

      Good job! Thanks mate!

    55. Jacky Says:
      June 5th, 2008 at 1:19 am

      Thanks a lot for this guide!

    56. Evan Says:
      June 19th, 2008 at 11:26 am

      Dude, Matt, thanks so much! Fantastic tutorial, great screen shot help, breaking down the commands so that I could understand exactly what is happening and why is so helpful!

    57. tom Says:
      July 20th, 2008 at 6:51 am

      Thanks! Worked like a charm!

    58. Mohan Says:
      August 2nd, 2008 at 4:48 am

      Thanks a lot for your great tutorial

    59. Kazelbti Says:
      August 4th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

      Hi webmaster!

    60. MGyHardSoft Says:
      August 21st, 2008 at 1:42 am

      Hi Matt,
      Excellent guide for the beginners! There is only one problem: the picture in Step 15 (http://www.matttopper.com/images/blog/adding_disk_to_vmware/15.jpg) is not displayed as the tag is missing from the HTML.

    61. Daniel Kim Says:
      August 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pm

      I stumbled on this while searching for “adding a second virtual drive to VMWare machine”. I am using VMWare player, and set up a Windows XP virtual machine using EasyVMX.com (thanks, EasyVMX!).

      I decided I wanted more disk space, and so I looked at the .vmx file to see how disk drives are defined.

      They seem to be identified by the *.vmdk filename. I copied the *.vmdk files from the virtual machine files that were produced by EasyVMX, from before I installed Windows on the virtual machine, and renamed them VMDK2*.vmdk

      I then edited the VMDK2.vmdk file, which is a plain text definition file, and changed all references to the original file names to the new one.

      I backed up my VM’s *.vmx file, then edited it to replicate the IDE0:0 section, except that I changed the reference to IDE0:1, and changed the .vmdk filename references to the VMDK2.vmdk filename references

      Then, I crossed my fingers and ran the VMX.

      Windows opened fine, and my original stuff is still there, but no second hard drive showed up. I realized that I needed to use Windows Disk Management to initialize the disk. Sure enough, it is listed as an unallocated volume or some such obscure name. I had Windows initialize it, created a partition and formatted it. Now it shows up fine.

      So, no need for VMWare Server to do this, just some judicious text editing.

    62. michadar Says:
      August 28th, 2008 at 8:03 am

      Thanks so much! :-D Great tutorial!
      Regards from Poland

    63. Owain Says:
      September 10th, 2008 at 3:36 am

      Simply Brilliant. Thanks

    64. Ntino Says:
      September 12th, 2008 at 5:49 am

      Thank you! Exactly what i was looking for.

    65. Inam Says:
      September 18th, 2008 at 11:21 am

      HI
      Could somebody explain me ideal way of installing Linux on Virtual Machine Workstation 6.

      I will be installing Oracle Applications on Linux, which will occupy around 175 GB, so how much of space i need to allocate in the Virtual machine HDD.

      I have about 200 GB in my D:/ drive, can i create my Virtual Machine on this D:\ so that when i install Linux on the Virtual Machine , i can allocate 200 GB to the Virtual HDD and install Oracle ora ny other program on Linux Later.

      I am novice to Linux and Virtual machine, Please help me out. Thanks

    66. simon Says:
      September 19th, 2008 at 6:57 am

      Matt

      Two years on and it’s still helping people – just what I needed so many thanks

      Simon

    67. John61 Says:
      September 28th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

      great and simple instruction. VMware should copy it to its own manual.

    68. Jeff Says:
      September 30th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

      Awesome! Worked perfect!

    69. eugenia Says:
      October 1st, 2008 at 4:30 am

      Thank you so much! It help me very much.

    70. Maged Fawzy Says:
      October 1st, 2008 at 9:18 am

      Thanks Dude!!! pretty neat and simple explanation.

    71. Shakir Says:
      October 10th, 2008 at 11:37 am

      Thanks man. Following your instructions was very straight forward and it worked as expected!

    72. Tim Says:
      October 14th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

      This is the best tutorial I’ve ever seen! Simple means genius. Thank you!

    73. anderson souza Says:
      October 24th, 2008 at 9:24 am

      Thanks for the tutorial very important i’m brazilian guy.

      translation: Muito obrigado pelo tutorial muito importante

    74. mark Says:
      November 4th, 2008 at 9:24 am

      nice one very helpfull

    75. Rahman Says:
      November 11th, 2008 at 11:18 am

      Great document yet simple… very helpful, Thanks a Bunch.

      Rahman Khaleel

    76. mogukiller Says:
      December 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 am

      great paper .. good job

    77. Fabio Says:
      December 4th, 2008 at 11:52 am

      Great work: very clear and helpful.

      Thanks Matt!

    78. huy Says:
      December 18th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

      thank nhieu nha

    79. Malik Says:
      January 1st, 2009 at 12:46 am

      Really good, very helpful and clear explanation

    80. Heinrich Fourie Says:
      January 13th, 2009 at 7:28 am

      Thank You SOOOO much. Struggled with this for hours till I found this page….and pictures!! Great job. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

      (now I can look clever) .. ;)

    81. Kai Says:
      January 15th, 2009 at 7:52 am

      thank you so much. It is what I exactly needed!!!

    82. Suvajit C Says:
      January 19th, 2009 at 3:45 pm

      Great work man, this really helps.

    83. Rolando Says:
      January 27th, 2009 at 11:12 am

      Clear step by step instructions. Very helpful. Thanks a lot.

    84. ujjwal Says:
      January 28th, 2009 at 12:02 am

      This article is very helpful. Appreciate your help. I have been looking for this for while.

    85. Casey K Says:
      February 8th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

      Matt,

      Wow. FINALLY, a linux tutorial that ACTUALLY WORKS AND MAKES SENSE for those of us who might not be Linux gurus!

      This helped tremendously with a Virtual Appliance I needed to tweak to my own liking!

      HDA (Hassle Free Download Appliance) vmware.com

    86. Patrick Says:
      February 24th, 2009 at 8:26 pm

      Nice work. Thank you. I do have a question though, is it possible to have a running image see the newly assigned disk without rebooting?

      Again, thank you.

    87. javier Says:
      February 25th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

      gran trabajo!! well done!

    88. Jose Carvalho Says:
      March 4th, 2009 at 11:08 am

      thank you very much !!It helps me alot !!

    89. sdddf Says:
      March 17th, 2009 at 7:28 am

      how can i creat mail server by vmwar

    90. Ravikumar Says:
      March 24th, 2009 at 2:03 am

      Good Information .It helped me a ton.Thanks alot.

    91. Anan Says:
      March 24th, 2009 at 11:02 pm

      Bravo!! Understandable and real work.

      Thanks Matt

    92. stine Says:
      April 3rd, 2009 at 12:57 am

      Well written, esp. when you explain WHY you used the commands that you did. Now all I have to do is add this new disk to LVM.

      Thanks again.

    93. Darth Vader Says:
      April 29th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

      Thanks. This was exactly what I needed

    94. Marc Says:
      May 5th, 2009 at 9:01 pm

      THANKS!!!, very helpful, just what I was looking for.

    95. Sushil Says:
      May 31st, 2009 at 9:18 am

      Thanks a lot dude.

      It helped me out in such a beautiful way.

      Good work!!!

    96. Joewee Says:
      June 19th, 2009 at 2:49 am

      Thanks a lot… the Doc was very helpful.

    97. Steve Says:
      June 25th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

      Thanks Matt,
      saved me in a pinch, had to move /var/spool to a new drive.

    98. Paul Johnson Says:
      June 30th, 2009 at 11:36 pm

      Still working in ‘09 with redhat 5 and vmware workstation 6.5.2

    99. Sonal Says:
      July 6th, 2009 at 12:38 am

      Thanks – This was v.helpful.

    100. Salih Says:
      July 11th, 2009 at 6:03 am

      It is simple and very very useful information.

    101. Salih Says:
      July 11th, 2009 at 6:19 am

      Hi Matt,

      Just checked it and it worked fine.

      Thanks,
      Salih KM

    102. John Doe Says:
      July 30th, 2009 at 10:14 am

      Thnx for this, saved me alot of time =)

    103. naresh Says:
      August 17th, 2009 at 4:45 am

      Good work. Buddy

    104. Ronnie Says:
      August 17th, 2009 at 7:44 am

      Good tutorial, I never knew that I can create an additional virtual hard disk for RAID configuration.

    105. Jimmy Says:
      September 8th, 2009 at 6:43 am

      Great tutorial!

    106. Neha Says:
      September 15th, 2009 at 3:30 pm

      Quick and Easy!

      Nice description and document is easy to understand with screen shots. Before finding this reference I have spend my 1 hr to add new HD. But now, I have added new HD to my vmware without any problem.

      Thanks a lot.

    107. Alan N-D Says:
      September 21st, 2009 at 5:10 am

      Very useful tutorial, again saved a lot of time.
      Thanks for posting.

    108. Arvind Says:
      September 23rd, 2009 at 5:31 pm

      Thanks for the tutorial
      Saved me a ton of time

    109. Deepak Says:
      October 7th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

      Excellent Work Buddy :) .

    110. sravanthi Says:
      October 8th, 2009 at 5:36 pm

      Thnaks a lot ,this tutorial is very nice and useful,i was able to create a new partition using this document

    111. Christer Says:
      October 15th, 2009 at 7:10 am

      Thank you!! Simple and perfect! :-)

    112. Diogo Nomura Says:
      November 3rd, 2009 at 10:42 am

      Thank you for the great tutorial!

    113. Gladly Says:
      November 6th, 2009 at 10:41 am

      really usefull guide

    114. Juan G Says:
      November 12th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

      you are the man…..thanks

    115. Adomi Says:
      December 9th, 2009 at 8:19 am

      The tutorial is good but I couldn’t go through with the process. All the first 12 steps passed quite ok but I got stucked at step 13. Indeed, after I entered the following
      “mkdir -t ext3 /sdb1″ I got the following error: /dev/sdb1: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock.

      Am using RHEL4. Any tips?

      Thanks in advance.

    116. Adomi Says:
      December 9th, 2009 at 10:36 am

      It worked fine. I was making a mistake in the mkfs command. Thanks again for the tuto.

    117. prasanna Says:
      December 14th, 2009 at 2:56 am

      Thanks. Very useful.

    118. Sergi Says:
      December 17th, 2009 at 4:30 am

      Good Tutorial. Well Explained and very detailed!!

    119. chet Says:
      December 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 am

      3.5 years and it’s still helping us n00bs out.

      Mr. Tumy pointed me this way as I was trying to add a second drive to VirtualBox. Worked like a charm. Thanks!

      chet

    120. Rahul Says:
      December 25th, 2009 at 1:43 am

      Oh. Very nice explaination article. Thanks for such a great knowledge sharing.

    121. Angad Says:
      December 28th, 2009 at 7:58 am

      It is very helpful and useful guide. Unfortunately, I did everything as mentioned and got virtual disk mounted but drive is not visible at all. I can see drive being mounted with mount command. There is also an entry in fstab file but still not visible. I have tried restarting couple of times.

      Can you please help and tell me what I am missing here?

      Cheers,
      Angad

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    124. RussellC Says:
      January 14th, 2010 at 7:52 am

      Really helpful article – thanks

    125. Paul Evans Says:
      January 14th, 2010 at 8:48 pm

      Comprehensive Survey of techniques to Extend / Expand virtual disks – VMWare, Fusion, VMware Server, VM Workstation, esx, including this post

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    126. Atul Kumar Says:
      January 15th, 2010 at 3:04 pm

      Thanks for useful information , I wasn’t aware that you have already documented it in such nice way .

      Other location

      http://onlineappsdba.com/index.php/2009/12/30/how-to-add-disk-in-linuxoel-virtual-linux-on-vmware-server/

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