It proves to be very poorly documented how to exactly have a VMware Linux guest update the size of a scsi device to reflect the increase of the virtual scsi disk (vmdk) online. The magic command is:
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echo 1 > /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/sd/0\:0\:6\:0/rescan |
The exact SCSI address will probably be different in you’re specific case, but simply double-tab into the path. Some people on the Net state this is not possible when the device is in use or the device has LVM2 PV’s on it, but I found it to work perfectly. After this you can add a partition, add the partition to a VG, increase the LV and increase the filesystem inside it, all online.
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