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[How To] Add a 3rd disk to a VM and mount using LVM

Ubuntu, Linux / 2 minutes of reading

Sometimes, you need to add 3rd disk to a VM to increase disk space and use only a portion of it. For example, a VM is shared by a number of users. You’ve run out of disk space. You add 1TB HDD and allocate 250GB to a new user, leaving the rest of the disk […]

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[How To] Add disk space to LVM with 2 physical volumes in VMware

Linux, DevOps, Ubuntu / 4 minutes of reading

So, here is a scenario. Ubuntu 14.04 server running in VMware ESX farm with LVM partition has an extra 150GB drive mounted on /opt via a 2nd Hard Drive. This is used as a storage point. The OS has a 40GB dedicated disk with /home, /tmp, /usr and /var are given separate mount points via

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