resize guest OS partition VMware Player
Often we do not think forward in planning our guest OS partition size and when the time comes we are cursed with insufficient disk problem.
That would not be a problem if we are using VirtualBox or VMware Workstation since there are tools available. But, if we are using VMware Player, there are limited tools available to be used.
If we there is VMware Player limitation, based on my experience, there are 2 way that we can use:
1. Create additional disk and mount to the guest OS (easy)
- Expand VM disk allocation
- Create new partition and filesystem
- Mount device filesystem
2. Expand VM disk allocation and then depends on guest OS available disk utilities to resize the partition (depends on the guest OS).
- Expand VM disk allocation
- Unmount and resize
