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extend volume of CentOS7 VM

kr flag

There is an issabel VM which I increased the VM hard drive from 20G to 1.07T through ESXi.

Next I add sda4 partition as new Linux LVM (following this path at step 22 ), seems I have to use vgextend [volume group] /dev/sda4 now but there is no Volume Group or at least vgdisplay,vgs,dh -f will show no VG. here is the outputs:

fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 1176.5 GB, 1176477441536 bytes, 2297807503 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000c90e0

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      616447      307200   83  Linux
/dev/sda2          616448     4810751     2097152   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3         4810752    41943039    18566144   83  Linux
/dev/sda4        41943040  2297807502  1127932231+  8e  Linux LVM

df -h :

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs        2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           2.0G  9.0M  2.0G   1% /run
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3        18G  3.3G   14G  21% /
/dev/sda1       283M  118M  147M  45% /boot
tmpfs           396M     0  396M   0% /run/user/0

pvdisplay:

 "/dev/sda4" is a new physical volume of "1.05 TiB"
      --- NEW Physical volume ---
      PV Name               /dev/sda4
      VG Name
      PV Size               1.05 TiB
      Allocatable           NO
      PE Size               0
      Total PE              0
      Free PE               0
      Allocated PE          0


vgdisplay:
vgs:
lvdisplay:

I changed sda4 from 83 to 8e.

What should i do to extend?

in flag
Correct, there is no LVM set up, so you can't use LVM to extend it. Delete sda4 and resize sda3 to the maximum size. Afterwards extend the filesystem accordingly.
in flag
Does this answer your question? [Extending a partition on a VMware disk in Linux](https://serverfault.com/questions/969086/extending-a-partition-on-a-vmware-disk-in-linux)
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kr flag
well, droped sda4 and resized the sda3 to maximum , now i want to extend filesystem with xfs_growfs /dev/sda3 which says:/dev/sda3 is not a mounted XFS filesystem. can you help what should i do for this now
in flag
Is it actually XFS?
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kr flag
its finished with resize2fs /dev/sda3 . thanks for your guide :)
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