Grow the VMFS Datastore in to the new space using the vmkfstools fails

Asked Oct 08 '12 at 18:47

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I followed Growing a local datastore from the command line to grow my local datastore from the command line. Everything went fine, except Step 11.

In my case:

 vmkfstools --growfs /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.5000c5004dd693ca:3 /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.5000c5004dd693ca:3

It says:

Error: No such file or directory

However the file definitely exists:

/dev/disks # ls -Al
-rw-------    1 root     root      1000204886016 Oct  8 18:43 naa.5000c5004dd693ca
-rw-------    1 root     root          939524096 Oct  8 18:43 naa.5000c5004dd693ca:1
-rw-------    1 root     root         4293918720 Oct  8 18:43 naa.5000c5004dd693ca:2
-rw-------    1 root     root       892567249408 Oct  8 18:43 naa.5000c5004dd693ca:3
-rw-------    1 root     root            4177920 Oct  8 18:43 naa.5000c5004dd693ca:4
-rw-------    1 root     root          262127616 Oct  8 18:43 naa.5000c5004dd693ca:5
-rw-------    1 root     root          262127616 Oct  8 18:43 naa.5000c5004dd693ca:6
-rw-------    1 root     root          115326976 Oct  8 18:43 naa.5000c5004dd693ca:7
-rw-------    1 root     root          299876352 Oct  8 18:43 naa.5000c5004dd693ca:8

Why do I get the No such file or directory or directory error?

edited Oct 08 '12 at 18:54

jftuga

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asked Oct 08 '12 at 18:47

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The example in the article has double quotes around the filenames. Did you try your command with double quotes? – jftuga Oct 08 '12 at 18:57
Why are you doing this from the command line? – Chopper3 Oct 08 '12 at 19:14
I also tried with double quotes, same error – markus Oct 08 '12 at 19:41
@Chopper3 Is there another way doing it? – markus Oct 08 '12 at 19:43
@markus So you've extended the underlying logical drive right? why wouldn't you just use the VSClient/GUI to extend the DS? – Chopper3 Oct 08 '12 at 19:47
I cant do it with the client the button to expand is greyed out – markus Oct 09 '12 at 09:44
I found another thread discussing the same issue: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2008814 – markus Oct 09 '12 at 09:45

Grow the VMFS Datastore in to the new space using the vmkfstools fails

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