Re: CentOS 5.5 in VMware Wkstn 7.1.3

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 23:48 -0600, Nathaniel R. Reindl wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
> <dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:
> > Has anyone here logged any recent installation time with CentOS 5.5 under
> > VMware/W? After three troubled attempts I discovered that by default it's
> > allocating far more disk space to /home than to / -- so much so that I can't
> > install OpenOffice, Java, or anything else requiring a significant amount of
> > space.
> 
> My CentOS 5.5 burns are usually done with a ks.cfg that allocates a
> couple of logical volumes within 15GB no matter the size of the
> underlying physical volume.  After that, I'm able to
> lvresize+e2resizefs to my heart's content.  You might want to
> investigate doing something similar to this anyway given what I'm
> reading in the rest of this thread.
> 
> (In an unrelated tangent, who's waiting for CentOS 6?)

Nate,

(Answered your last question separately.)

The trouble I'm having is the ruthless way CentOS 5.5 is being installed
under VMware Workstation 7.1.3. I get no opportunity to review and
change the partitioning scheme. I suspect the culprit is VMware
Workstation. It detects CentOS 5.5 64-bit right off the bat, and asks no
questions after that. I think it has a built-in kickstart that allocates
a 25GB virtual disk as follows:

        # fdisk -l /dev/sda
        
        Disk /dev/sda: 26.8 GB, 26843545600 bytes
        255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3263 cylinders
        Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
        
           Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
        /dev/sda1   *           1           6       48163+  83  Linux
        /dev/sda2               7         515     4088542+  83  Linux
        /dev/sda3             516         772     2064352+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
        /dev/sda4             773        3263    20008957+   5  Extended
        /dev/sda5             773        3263    20008926   83  Linux

        # df -h
        Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
        /dev/sda2             3.8G  2.9G  727M  81% /
        /dev/sda5              19G  173M   18G   1% /home
        /dev/sda1              46M   17M   27M  40% /boot
        tmpfs                 502M     0  502M   0% /dev/shm
        /dev/hdc              4.1G  4.1G     0 100% /media/CentOS_5.5_Final
        
I think the most direct way to fix this would be to log in as root,
create a "/home-temp", move everything now in /home over, umount /home,
run fdisk to delete /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5, then grow /dev/sda2 to the
max and run e2resizefs on /.

It's the grow and resize steps I've never done. What would be the tools
and syntaxes to do that?

--Doc


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