Hi All, this blog is all about showing you how to Extending Hardisk of Redhat-Virtual(Machine)-Vmware-WorkStation 16 Player, partioning and how to point a permanent mount to a directory in redhat 8

1. open vim-ware workstation 16 player and click
   virtual machine settings
   hard disk
   maximum disk size click on plus sign to increase the size of the disk
   click on expand disk
   once done you will see a prompt saying 'the disk was successfully expanded'
   click okay
2. start your virtual machine this demo will use redhat 8
3. this snippet shows the size of my file system folder starting from the root directory, so what i want is to add a new partition which has 10Gib and point this particular partition to a specific folder called repo, because i will need to create a local repository for my system. repository files might be bigger than 7Gb and i don't want repository files to consume size on my file system.

4. type the fdisk -l to see all available partion on disk you will see that the 10Gb was not listed in all availabe disks

5. check the name of the disk you can see our current hardisk is called /dev/nvme0n1, with 3 primary partitions on it (/dev/nvme0n1p1,/dev/nvme0n1p2,/dev/nvme0n1p3)

6. as you know BIOS use MBR which allow us to create 4 partition only where 3 partion should be primary partions and the fourth one will be extended partition so we are going create 4th partion here which will be extended partion,

lextended partion allow us to create many logical partion on top of it. if you are using modern UEFI then don't worry b'se it uses GPT which allows you to create up to 128 partitions instead of 4

7. next you will need to reboot you system for the changes to take effect, after a reboot type fdisk -l as root again you will have something like this

8. It is time to create logical partition on top of extended partition type fdisk name-of-your-extended-partition

9.after rebooting your system type fdisk -l, you will see new logical partition

10. It is the time to point this partition to a specific folder create a folder i've created a folder on root called repo and and this entry in etc/fstab file which contain all permanent mounted partitions

save the file and quit by default redhat 8 comes with xfs file system but if you want to change to ext4 or any other for flexibility you can do that as well, finally you will need to give your partion any file system of you choice here is the command for xfs mkfs.xfs /dev/nvme0n1p5,if it is ext4 it will be like mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p5

And then the last commant will be mount -a which will tellredhat system that the record added in /etc/fstab needs to be mounted permanently in /repo folder

11. type df -h, df is for disk free and -h is for printing the size of disk in human readable format

As you see above our partion is pointing to /repo folder

Thank you so Much | Murakozeeee!!! cyange ,next blog i will show you how to create local repository on redhat 8 if you have a question or need to ask me something please fell free to contact me