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Anton Pashchenko2021-09-02 14:22:53
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Anton Pashchenko, 2021-09-02 14:22:53

How to increase scratch partition in ESXi 6.7?

ESXi 6.7 issued a warning:

Size of scratch partition 612b901e-a00e2e1d-bec9-ac1f6b44ee26 is too small. Recommended scratch partition size is 4532 MiB.

The partition itself is 4094MB by default.
Here is the output of df -h:
[[email protected]:~] df -h
Filesystem   Size   Used Available Use% Mounted on
VMFS-6     340.0G 197.7G    142.3G  58% /vmfs/volumes/970EVOPlus
VMFS-6     930.2G 863.9G     66.4G  93% /vmfs/volumes/WD RED RAID1
VMFS-6       1.8T   1.4T    405.7G  78% /vmfs/volumes/Bk
VMFS-6       1.8T   1.4G      1.8T   0% /vmfs/volumes/Seagate Barracuda 2Tb (7200)
VMFS-6     952.5G 472.6G    479.9G  50% /vmfs/volumes/GoodRAM SSD IRDM RAID1
vfat       249.7M   4.0K    249.7M   0% /vmfs/volumes/7b067877-af18fa82-ff4b-84e6fa50b04a
vfat       249.7M 207.8M     41.9M  83% /vmfs/volumes/e4c04e7b-2243e8bf-ee9a-465fb220e695
vfat       285.8M 198.0M     87.9M  69% /vmfs/volumes/612b9016-bdba9e25-bb4a-ac1f6b44ee26
vfat         4.0G  26.8M      4.0G   1% /vmfs/volumes/612b901e-a00e2e1d-bec9-ac1f6b44ee26

ESXi itself is on a Seagate Barracuda 2Tb (7200).

Actually the question is how to increase it correctly?

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