VMware Workstation 15.5 Pro extends CentOS 7.7 disk root partition capacity

1. Relevant information before expansion:

(1) VMware Workstation version:

(2) CentOS version:

(3) disk and partition information before expansion:

2. Expansion goal: expand / partition from 30G to 40G

3. Turn off the virtual machine and edit the virtual machine settings:

The expand button is grayed out. You need to delete the snapshot before expanding.

Resize the virtual disk:

4. Start the virtual machine and view the disk and partition information:

5. Create a new partition:

6. Make the zoning effective:

7. Initialize the physical disk to the physical volume PV:# pvcreate / dev/sda4

8. Extend VG:# vgextend centos7 / dev/sda4

9. Extend LV:# lvextend-l + 100%FREE / dev/mapper/centos7-root

10. Extend the xfs file system: # xfs_growfs / dev/centos7/root

11. View the expanded disk and partition information: