How to remove the local partition of storage and vmfs

I have esx 3.5 on a 6 infrastructure hosts. Each host, in addition to other stuff, I have a 6 GB VMFS partition, "tied" to a local storage.

I did not install, so I do not know the purpose of this partition, but there seems that it is not used, because it is empty.

Now I need free space on the hosts to install monitorning of IBM tools, and I thought that it was preferable to have these installed NOT on the partition root.

Since I have this 6 GB partition (hopefully) unused, I if I could remove the storage, delete the partition VFMS and create an EXT3 partition.

But I do not know how... can someone tell me the exact procedure I should follow?

Some information about my environment:

the VMFS partition is sda3:

Disk/dev/sda: 14.9 GB, 14999879680 bytes

Heads of 64, 32 sectors/track, 14305 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device boot start end blocks Id system

/ dev/sda1 * 1 100 102384 83 Linux

/ dev/sda2 101 5100 5120000 83 Linux

FB/dev/sda3 5101 11680 6737920 unknown

f/dev/sda4 2688000 14305 11681 Win95 Ext'd (LBA)

/ dev/sda5 11681 12224 557040 82 Linux swap

/ dev/sda6 12225 14206 2029552 83 Linux

14207 14305 CF 101360 unknown sda7

And I have this virtue/vmfs/volumes (ensv16oe:storage1 is the local storage, I want to delete):

# ls

48bedd8b-7fe7ff6e - 36 c 5-00215e2097b4 Datastore1

48c5a420-0cc1aaee-6f30-00215e20951e Datastore2

Datastore3 48c5a439-83322386-75 d 3-00215e20951e

49aece6c-cbdd0d6c-5253-00215e20951e ensv16oe:storage1

ensv16oe:storage1 is on vmhba1:4:0:3

Thank you for your attention.

The restart was not necessary also if fdisk say Yes.

A different way has been to say the least the VMFS volume empty, change the type with fdisk, forcing a new analysis and verify that the data store is gone.

André

Tags: VMware

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