Resizing root fs for Ubuntu

I needed to resize one of my VMs. This will serve as some better notes than what I see online.

  1. Shutdown VM and open the ESXI WEB UI to resize the virtual disk and check a box to force the bios to open on power up.
  2. Attach gparted iso to VM then power it up and adjust boot order to boot iso.
  3. Once booted, deactivate LVM root volume and resize both extended and logical partitions to max disk size or as desired.
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VM Creation Script for ESXI 6.5 Hosts

So I had an idea to make creating VMs a little easier for me instead of clicking a handful of buttons and powering up the VM then waiting for it to install. I found a blog post intended for Mac VMs that was inspired from a now deleted site’s blog post by a guy who needed to make a bunch of them quicker so I forked Tamas’s script (the original one I think) and modified it to create Ubuntu VMs.
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Moving VMDK Images between ESXI and VBox

I did a thing that works but requires a little manual work to do…
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Installed an Amp in my truck

because the factory deck just wasn’t loud enough. ;)
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Roll your own pfsense box

Roll your own pfsense box
and future-proof yourself for version 2.5 when it releases.
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DNS over TLS using PFsense

and why you need it.
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Creating a home based Cloud Service

A log about my home cloud adventure
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Isolating Machines Within a LAN

Creating a isolated segment within a bigger LAN
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The Pfsense box - Part 2

The Pfsense box - Part 2
An update in my adventures of being a sysadmin at home.
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Car Radio for Powered PC Speakers

Car Radio for Powered PC Speakers
A thing about my PC Radio. :)
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