HowTo: Extend the hard disk for Proxmox Mail Gateway on VMware

[tom]

1. Shut down the Mail Gateway
2. Extended the virtual disk using VMware utilities (e.g. vmware-vdiskmanager: see VMware documentation)
3. Boot the Mail Gateway from a live-ISO image containing a partition management tool (e.g. Acronis Disk Director or any other)
4. Extend the ext3 partition to the new size
5. Reboot into the Mail Gateway

 

[dudu79194]

The Post is very old.

Any new procedure?

Thanks

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Not really - but these days the procedure would depend on how you've set up your PMG (current installations support ext4/xfs on LVM and ZFS) - and according to this choice the procedure differs.

In principle it remains the same:
* make a backup
* enhance the disksize
* boot a live-cd
* extend the partition(s)
* depending on the setup:
** expand the zpool (ZFS)
** run pvresize, vgresize, lvresize and resize the filesystem afterwards

I hope this helps!

 

[dudu79194]

Is it possible, do you explain the last two steps with marked **?