Increasing the size of the existing hard drive

&lt;p&gt;The second way to increase disk space in BitrixVA consists in increasing the size of the already existing hard drive of the virtual machine.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In this example, let us use the BitrixVA virtual machine for VMWare and have a look at how to increase the disk space up to 100 Gb.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol&gt; &lt;li&gt;Run &lt;b&gt;VMWare Player&lt;/b&gt;, in the list of virtual machine choose the BitrixVA virtual machine and click &lt;b&gt;Edit virtual machine settings&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/portal_admin/install/vmbitrix/vm_disk_increase6.png&quot; width=&quot;687&quot; height=&quot;579&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;In the device window, choose the &lt;b&gt;Hard Disk&lt;/b&gt; for which the size should be increased and activate the option &lt;b&gt;Expand&lt;/b&gt; in the menu &lt;b&gt;Utilities&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/portal_admin/install/vmbitrix/vm_disk_increase7.png&quot; width=&quot;676&quot; height=&quot;493&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Indicate the necessary size of virtual disk in gigabytes (in this example – 100 Gb) in the field &lt;b&gt;Maximum disk size (GB)&lt;/b&gt; of the newly opened window &lt;b&gt;Expand Disk Capacity&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/portal_admin/install/vmbitrix/vm_disk_increase8.png&quot; width=&quot;356&quot; height=&quot;203&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;After that, run the BitrixVA virtual machine, log in under root and go to the command prompt (console) by selecting menu option &lt;b&gt;0. Exit&lt;/b&gt; in the virtual machine.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Look up the disk and its letter designation using the console command: &lt;pre class=&quot;syntax&quot;&gt;fdisk -c -u -l&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/portal_admin/install/vmbitrix/vm_disk_increase9_sm.png&quot; width=&quot;700&quot; height=&quot;449&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Where for the disk &lt;b&gt;/dev/sda&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;sda1&lt;/b&gt; – boot sector of the disk;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;sda2&lt;/b&gt; – swap file;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;sda3&lt;/b&gt; – partition where the operation system is installed, it is this partition that should be increased.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Run the utility &lt;b&gt;fdisk&lt;/b&gt; for work with the disk /dev/sda: &lt;pre class=&quot;syntax&quot;&gt;fdisk -c -u /dev/sda&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Use the command &lt;b&gt;d&lt;/b&gt; to delete the partition &lt;b&gt;sda3&lt;/b&gt; by selecting &lt;code&gt;Partition number (1-4): 3&lt;/code&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/portal_admin/install/vmbitrix/vm_disk_increase10_sm.png&quot; width=&quot;700&quot; height=&quot;449&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;warning&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Attention&lt;/b&gt;. In this case, no data from the disk are deleted, only the entry about the partition is deleted from the disk partition table.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Then, let us create a new partition using the command &lt;b&gt;n&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Primary partition – command &lt;b&gt;p&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Partition number (1-4): 3&lt;/code&gt;; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;In this case let us choose the first and the last sectors by default; thus, a partition will be created using all of the free space on the disk.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/portal_admin/install/vmbitrix/vm_disk_increase11_sm.png&quot; width=&quot;700&quot; height=&quot;449&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Enter the command &lt;b&gt;w&lt;/b&gt; to save the updated partition table and exit from &lt;b&gt;fdisk&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/portal_admin/install/vmbitrix/vm_disk_increase12_sm.png&quot; width=&quot;700&quot; height=&quot;449&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Reboot the virtual machine to load the new partition table to the system: &lt;pre class=&quot;syntax&quot;&gt;reboot&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;After rebooting use the utility &lt;b&gt;resize2fs&lt;/b&gt; to increase the size of file system of the partition &lt;b&gt;/dev/sda3&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;pre class=&quot;syntax&quot;&gt;resize2fs /dev/sda3&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/portal_admin/install/vmbitrix/vm_disk_increase13_sm.png&quot; width=&quot;700&quot; height=&quot;449&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt; &lt;p&gt;Use the command &lt;b&gt;df&lt;/b&gt; to make sure the partition is increased:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/portal_admin/install/vmbitrix/vm_disk_increase14_sm.png&quot; width=&quot;700&quot; height=&quot;449&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Similarly, the disk size can be changed in other virtualization environments.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

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