Growing the size of a VM's disk in VMware

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Published on 2012-04-01T03:31:57Z Indexed on 2012/04/01 5:32 UTC
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I have a VM that I originally gave 10 GB to (using VMware workstation, and Ubuntu 11.10 is the guest OS).

I now wish to add to that. I have seen the option to expand the disk size, but all that does is create a new "partition" that Ubuntu can see.

Is there a way to expand the size of the primary partition that the guest OS is using?

NOTE: I have seen something regarding doing this for a regular Ubunbu OS that requires a boot disk. Is there a way that I can apply that to this VM case?

Using Windows 7 64-bit as the host OS

EDIT: To be clear, I am trying to resize the boot partition.

Edit 2: GParted's resize option is greyed out. enter image description here

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