Resizing the disk space on Ubuntu Server VMs running on VMware ESXi 5

 

- fdisk /dev/sda
- p
Device     Boot   Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *       2048   999423   997376  487M 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       1001470 33552383 32550914 15.5G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       1001472 33552383 32550912 15.5G 8e Linux LVM
- d
- 2
- n 
- e
- enter
- n 
- enter
- t 8e
 

I ran this command to resize the physical volume.
ubuntu@brick:~$ sudo pvresize /dev/sda5
Physical volume "/dev/sda5" changed
1 physical volume(s) resized / 0 physical volume(s) not resized

Then I ran this command to resize the logical root volume
ubuntu@brick:~$ sudo lvresize -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/brick-root
Extending logical volume root to 118.76 GiB
Logical volume root successfully resized

Then I ran this command to resize the file system on the root partition. This took about 6 seconds.
ubuntu@brick:~$ sudo resize2fs /dev/mapper/brick-root
resize2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
Filesystem at /dev/mapper/brick-root is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 5, new_desc_blocks = 8
The filesystem on /dev/mapper/brick-root is now 31132672 blocks long.