Fedora 6 Disk Space

[David Timms]

Kam Leo wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Bruce Z <wz332 at drexel.edu> wrote:
>>
>>  >Why don't you install the Linux version of the Matlab ?
>>  Yes, I am downloading the linux version of Matlab.  The problem now is that
>>  the fedora using vmware only allocates virtual space of 7.8GB which are all
>>  used up.  I need a way to reallocate so I can get more space to get the
>>  matlab installed.
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Bruce Z <wz332 at drexel.edu> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >  Recently I was trying to install MATLAB software under vmware-fedora 6
>>  > and
>>  >  found the disk space was not sufficient.  I checked out on the volume
>>  >  manager and found that the volume space was limited to 7.8 GB (where the
>>  >  actual hard drive disk space was 18GB).  I would like to reallocate the
>>  > disk
>>  >  space so to increase the volume space for fedora.  It would be
>>  > appreciated
>>  >  if any one tell me how how to do it, thanks.
>>
> 
> You did not specify which VMware product that you are using. If you
> are using Workstation just create/add another virtual disk/partition
> to your VM.
or if server, can expand an ext3fs with vmware-vdiskmanager, while the 
guest is not running. boot the guest into a rescue cd. use parted to 
make the partition larger to fill the disk {or use riplinux and gparted}.

DaveT.