Hello
I wanted to expand the Datastore because it's running out of free space and the raid1 where it resides had about 50 GB unasigned (I let those 50 GB unused when I initially created the VMFS)
Since I couldn't do it on the GUI (ncrease datastore capacity greyed out), I followed this instructions to do it on the CLI: https://michlstechblog.info/blog/esxi-expand-datastore-from-command-line/
I could expand the partition and all went well until the part of growing the VMFS.
Initial part:
[root@esx:~] partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.b0269f4100d00000
30377 255 63 488017920
1 128 364644400 0 0
[root@esx:~] partedUtil getUsableSectors /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.b0269f4100d00000
34 488017886
[root@esx:~] partedUtil resize /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.b0269f4100d00000 1 128 488017886
[root@esxi:~] vmkfstools -V
If I do as described, using the partition indicator ":1", I get a "not found" message.
I if remove the ":1" from the second argument (destination?), I get a "Failed to get info from head device path"
[root@esx:/dev/disks] vmkfstools --growfs /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.b0269f4100d00000:1 /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.b0269f4100d00000:1
Not found
Error: No such file or directory
[root@esx:/dev/disks] vmkfstools --growfs /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.b0269f4100d00000:1 /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.b0269f4100d00000
Failed to get info from head device path /dev/disks/eui.b0269f4100d00000.
Error: No such file or directory
I'm stucked here and don't know what to do
The partition size is 232 GB but the Datastore is only 173 GB,,,
Here some screenshots
Could you help me???
Thanks in advance.


