After the completion of the script, it will automatically restart the Nagios server. We run the below commands to automatically resize the partition and filesystem on VM. We can follow any of the below 2 methods to resize the partition and filesystem. We power the VM back on after increasing the disk space. (VM) > Edit virtual machine settings > Hardware > Hard Disk (SCSI) > Utilities > Expand > Maximum disk size. (VM) > Summary > Commands > Edit Settings > Hardware > Hard Disk 1 > Capacity > New Size.įor VMware Player, we can find the disk size setting using the following options on the overview page: We can find the virtual disk size setting under: We recommend shutdown and power the VM off before resizing the virtual disk. If we are using another hypervisor like Hyper-V or VirtualBox then these settings will be slightly different from the steps below. However, we recommend taking a proper backup before proceeding with resizing the virtual machine.įirst, we modify the amount of disk space VMware is allocating to Nagios image. If the version is 7, the output will be something like: CentOS Linux release (Core) If the version is 6, the output will be something like: CentOS release 6.9 (Final) Now let’s see how our Support Engineers resize the Nagios virtual machine (VM) disk for CentOS 7.įirst, we check the version of CentOS by running the below command. Resizing the Nagios VM disk size for centos 7 Today we’ll take a look at how to fix this Nagios disk space problem.
Here at Bobcares, we have seen several such Nagios-related errors as part of our Server Management Services for web hosts and online service providers. VirtualBox site - Chapter 8.Resizing the Nagios VM disk size for centos 7 can be done either manually or automatically using a script. VirtualBox forum - How to resize a Virtual Drive ( link) On Windows Vista and newer you can also use the Disk Management tool shipped with the operating system utilities. It works fine on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X partitions. You can rely upon GParted for this kind of task. It is time to use a partition manager to enlarge the primary partition in order to take advantage of the new space available. Your disk is larger now, but not yet used by the operating system. Extend the partition to use the new space If it contains spaces, wrap it up in quotes (as I did).įor the gigabytes to megabytes conversion, I found a nice utility here. Open a terminal window and use it as follows: VBoxManage modifyhd -resize įor example: VBoxManage modifyhd "/home/me/VirtualBox\ VMs/windows\ 7\ 64bit/windows\ 7\ 64bit.vdi" -resize 102400 I'm going to use VBoxManage, a tool for managing VirtualBox via the command line. The operation takes place in two stages: resize the disk itself and then enlarge the primary partition. My daily task is to resize a VirtualBox disk, because I ran out of space in it.
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