Expand Disk Space without Rebooting - Vmware

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1. Install growpart 

yum install cloud-utils-growpart

2. Check the name(s) of your SCSI devices. 

$ ls /sys/class/scsi_device/

3. Re-scan the SCSI Bus to Add a SCSI Device Without rebooting the VM using the following command 

$ echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/0\:0\:0\:0/device/rescan

4. Resize the partition 

growpart /dev/sda 1

5. Resize device 

resize2fs /dev/sda
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