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    Expand partition of CentOS 6.5

    Thanks for your reply. I tried this as well. I formatted the pen-drive and copied the GParted live ISO in it. Entered the BIOS of VM Work Station and ensured that the ‘Removable Devices’ has the highest priority. Connected the pen drive to the PC and rebooted the Virtual Machine. Tried several...
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    Expand partition of CentOS 6.5

    Thanks for the description. I created a Live GParted disk using UNetBootIn and GParted Live ISO (using the latest i686 aka 32 bit option - I formatted the 16 GB pen drive in Fat32 format; Win7 does not have Fat 16/ Fat option). I then entered the BIOS of the VM Workstation from the options VM >...
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    Expand partition of CentOS 6.5

    This method seems to be for cloud servers. I need to unmount the drive which I need to expand. Since I want to expand the Boot drive of the Guest OS, this may not be possible while I am logged in to the Guest OS (unless I am missing something here - I am not an expert of Linux).
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    Expand partition of CentOS 6.5

    Thanks for your reply. Since I am using CentOS as a guest OS in windows (through VMWare Workstation), I am not sure how to use a GParted Live USB in it (for Windows, GParted Live USB will work easily). Anyways, I tried to load GParted directly in my CentOS guest OS. I downloaded the latest...
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    Expand partition of CentOS 6.5

    Ok. How to merge the sda3 to sda1 using the Disk Utility pls? I am new to Linux and virtual machine. I will deeply appreciate a step by step guide pls. Thanks in advance. Arvind Gupta.
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    Expand partition of CentOS 6.5

    Thanks for your response. I could not install Gparted in the guestOS (CentOS 6.5) as it does not have any web browser ( and no internet connectivity). However I managed to take snapshots from the Disk Utility. Hope this works for you. As you may see in both the snapshots there is dev/sda1...
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    Expand partition of CentOS 6.5

    Hi, I am new to CentOS and Virtual Machines. I got a CentOS 6.5 VM on the internet and wanted to try it out. Hope someone can help me in its usage. I loaded the guest OS (CentOS 6.5) on VMWare Workstation 10. The HDD for CentOS distribution was 35GB. I needed to increase it to 60GB. So I...
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