Infrastructure Software

Hi all,

I've been searching in Internet information about how to increase the storage capacity of a Linux machine, so that it can help me with my problem without success. I tried to execute some command lines encountered in some tips in forums, but no one works.
I want to install an Oracle 11g database, which needs 4 GB minimal for the installation. I can not continue with the installation because of this problem.

I use a VMWare virtual machine, which I increased over its settings to 160 GB, but not its file systems or whatever in the machine.

I did this:


[root@localhost ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 18G 15G 1.9G 89% /
/dev/sda1 190M 12M 169M 7% /boot
none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc 699M 0 699M 100% /media/cdrom

As far I understand the bigger storage capacity is used by the file system /dev/sda3. But what about the rest, I mean the 140 GB?. I've already increased the storage capacity over the settings. How can I tell the machine "please use the remaining 140 GB for the installation of the Oracle DB and other needed installations?.

How can I increase here what?. Disk? File system? Volume Group? It can not be so difficult, can it?

There are no volume groups in the machine:

+[root@localhost /]# vgdisplay+
+No volume groups found+

Linux is too complicated. Unfortunately I have to do that in Linux :-(

Can someone help me? I sit here since long hours without finding a solution :-(