I don’t think most of us need to know Linux, but if you end up managing a system, it’s good to have a little idea of how to get around. This is a short series of posts as I remember the skills I used to have back in university.

While working with some SQL Server 2017 tests, I ran out of disk space. I tend to size my VMs around 40GB, and that works for some things, but I’ll run out of space.

I needed to expand the VMWare disk. That doesn’t mean Linux sees the space directly, and I had to figure out how to make the partition bigger. I could have added another disk, but I wanted to work through this process. I learned I needed to have an inactive partition, so I download gparted on a live cd and booted to that.

Next I started working through a few of the tutorials on Linux partitions. This one on AskUbuntu was helpful, as I ended up having to move my swap partition to the end of the disk.

GParted isn’t completely intuitive for a Windows guy, but I muddled through it.

Once I had the operations I wanted, I applied them, and partitions moved.

I rebooted, and checking the main partition properties, I had space.

Now, back to SQL Server on Linux.

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