Resizing a vmdk attached to Linux

1. Do the needful of resizing in VMware. (settings -> edit -> change size)
2. Rescan scsi bus on the linux host. Pick your poison here. echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_disk/path/to/disk or rescan_scsi_bus.
3. Maybe that works.
4. If not, reboot.

Then I couldn’t get the new size to show up without running fdisk, deleting the existing partition and recreate it with the new size.

NOTE: Make sure you change the partition type to LVM (8e).

1. Run pvresize /dev/sdb1
2. Trust but verify with pvdisplay
3. Extend the lv with the usual lvextend -L+100G /dev/mapper/path/to/lv
4. Resize your shitty filesystem: resize2fs /dev/mapper/path/to/lv