Howto: Enlarge disk in CentOS under VMWare

According to this post: http://smartiecomputers.com/blog/?p=117

1. Power off the VM

2. Remove all snapshots

3. Expand the disk

4. Power on VM

5. Create new LVM partition using fdisk with type: 8e (Linux LVM)

6. Create physical volume: pvcreate /dev/sda3

7. Extend VolGroup: vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda3

8. Show the free space we got: vgdisplay

9. Grow the VolGroup: lvextend -L+nG /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

10. Resize the file system online: resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

Done!