Howto Increase a / (Root) LVM partition on a single vmdk without adding another partition (For example under VMware Workstation)   Increase Vmware partition and LVM Resize your vmdk under VMWare as you would do it usually. Once you’ve resized the vmdk I advise to take a snapshot while everything is still fine. That way if you completely screw your VM’s partition table you have a back-out Run # df -h Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_sat01-lv_root                        16G  3.9G   11G  27% / tmpfs                 935M     0  935M   0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1             485M   37M  423M   8% /boot It will all look a bit like this run # /sbin/fdisk -u -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 96.6 GB, 96636764160 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11748 cylinders, total 188743680 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 […]