Database Connection Issues - Mysql.service won't start
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@Naline OK your root partition is the last partition on the disk (a good thing). Your vmdk is 500GB in size. Go ahead and expand the vmdk file. The next bit is you will need to expand the partition and then the file system. I had a really swell step by step instructions I found a while ago I’m looking for that. While I look for those instructions go ahead and expand the vmdk disk.
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I have to step away from the computer for a few minutes. I can’t seem to find the instructions at the moment, but if you google for it you don’t want the instructions that mention LVM. You have just a flat standard disk partitions. The commands are easy like 2 or 3 of them to expand the partition then expand the file system. I just can’t find them at the moment. Back in a bit.
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@george1421 No problem. I have increased it from 500GB to 800GB. We aren’t needing this at the moment. I’ll wait for you if you have the time later today or tomorrow (even later this week). You have been amazing and you have no idea how much I appreciate your help. I have some other things to work on.
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@Naline The first answer here will get you going: https://askubuntu.com/questions/24027/how-can-i-resize-an-ext-root-partition-at-runtime
The reason why I’m hesitating is that it uses the process where you are going to delete partition 2 on the disk and then recreate it right away in the bigger size without loosing any data. As long as its done in one shot it will be OK. But its still kind of anxious time. Once you get the disk partition expanded then just use the expand fs command in the thread.
Just make sure you have a good backup of the fog server VM before you do this. If you had a gui loaded on that computer you could use gparted utility to extend the partition and file system. Since you don’t you will have to do command line. But you are after /dev/sda2 (or the second primary partition on the disk)
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@george1421 Thanks. I have the backup ready to run tonight and I’ll see about working on it tomorrow or Monday when I’m back in the office. I also used your article and looked up the commands on YouTube. This video was helpful for me to see how each command laid out as it was typed step by step.
My first line would be sudu fdisk /dev/sda2 correct?
Here is the video if you or anyone else is interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-MeH95ei1g
Is there a way to add a GUI to an already established Ubuntu server? Asking for a friend. (j/k It’s for me. I do feel like I’ve gotten a lot of Linux command line practice in the last two days trying to work on this.)
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@Naline said in Database Connection Issues - Mysql.service won't start:
My first line would be sudu fdisk /dev/sda2 correct?
Just for clarity /dev/sda is your first disk in your computer. /dev/sda2 means the 2nd partition on your first disk. When working with fdisk you connect with the disk or /dev/sda only.
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Hey George. I’m back working on this today. I followed the instructions on the link you sent while referencing the YouTube video I found but ran into a problem with it only recreating the disk using the size 500G instead of 800G. I found out after doing some more searching that I needed to run sudo lshw -c disk for Ubuntu to rescan the file systems to recognize the 800G drive from vmWare. So I got this fixed and Ubuntu now sees the 800G drive.
But I am running into the problem of the following GPT PMBR size mismatch coming up in red (see below) while going into the sudo fdisk /dev/sda.
I also had the issue of it not resizing to 800G but staying at 500G. I reviewed the YouTube video some more and they talked about the sectors needing to match. For Disk /dev/sda: 800GiB is showing 1677721600 sectors. When my disk is being re-created it is wanting to stay at the original sector numbers that were set for 500G. I tried to change the sector number but continued to get the message that the value was out of range.
I also continued through the commands to finish, but when trying to save (write) it comes back to the GPT PMBR size mismatch and that fdisk: failed to write disklabel: invalid argument.
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@Naline I’m wonder if you can restore the disk to the last backup where you have a partition table smaller than the disk then run gparted to expand that last partition.
Look here in the section: “5. Resize Linux Disk Partition” resizepart command
https://www.tecmint.com/parted-command-to-create-resize-rescue-linux-disk-partitions/
I’m wondering if the fdisk command did bad things to that GPT structured disk.
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@george1421
I used the command grow part and now it is showing sda2 as having 800G.
df -h is still showing sda2 as having 500G. Should I try running through the initial commands you gave me and those listed in the YouTube video again to expand it?
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@Naline Ok now we are moving towards an ending. You just grew the partition to the size of the disk. Now you need to extend the filesystem to the size of the partition (remember they are not directly connected but interdependant).
Now you need to run the resize filesystem command
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You are the best! We are good to go! Thank you for all your help and for sticking it out with me. I hope this thread helps someone else later on down the line. You’ve also helped me increase my Linux command line knowledge a bunch.
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@Naline I just wish I could have found the post I used before. As I said it was 2 simple commands to expand the disk. Its just which two commands that were the stumbling block.
I agree I hope this thread help the next guy.
