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This document also assumes you did not enable Logical Volume Management (LVM) when deploying your server. If you did, you will need to perform additional LVM-specific steps after increasing the space. This document also assumes you did not enable Logical Volume Management (LVM) when deploying your server. If you did, you will need to perform additional LVM-specific steps after increasing the space.
!!! abstract "Oracle Linux Disk / LVM Terminology Idiosyncrasy"
Oracle Linux refers to disks as `/dev/hda` and /dev/hda2` and not something like `/dev/sda` / `/dev/sda2`. You will see certain parts of this document mention `/dev/hda`, in those cases, you may need to switch it to a standard `/dev/sda<#>` in order to make it work in your particular environment.
## Increase GuestVM Virtual Disk Size ## Increase GuestVM Virtual Disk Size
This part should be fairly straight-forward. Using whatever hypervisor is running the Linux GuestVM, expand the disk space of the disk to the desired size. This part should be fairly straight-forward. Using whatever hypervisor is running the Linux GuestVM, expand the disk space of the disk to the desired size.