Steps to create a new linux filesystem in a VMWare image

extend physical disk in vmware
create new partition on unallocated portion (fdisk /dev/sda, (n)ew primary partition, create on partition (2), (w)rite and exit
mkdir /opt/oracle/product/oradata2
reboot machine
create filesystem on new partition (mke2fs /dev/sda2)
add entry to /etc/fstab to mount the new partition on /dev/sda2 on /opt/oracle/product/oradata2 - for example:

/dev/sda2 /opt/oracle/product/oradata2 ext2 defaults 0 1

type 'mount' (or reboot)
create new oracle medium tablespace datafile on new filesystem

BTW the manual command to mount is:
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda2 /opt/oracle/product/oradata2

Using 7za, scp, and imp from the command line

Here's how to add the contents of multiple directories to the same zip file using command line:

7za -tzip a KCC4.zip src/* -r
7za -tzip a KCC4.zip conf/* -r
7za -tzip a KCC4.zip data-dumps/* -r

Here's how to use scp from the command line to copy a file from the local directory to the remote servers /tmp directory:

scp KCC4.zip purisma@as01.corp.purisma.com:/tmp/KCC4.zip

And to scp an entire directory:

scp -r mydatafordnb-3.7.1-Cushman8 purisma@ps03.corp.purisma.com:/tmp

Here's how to call Oracle's imp command from the command line

imp system/purisma1@vanredha file=kcc4_dmp.dmp fromuser=kcc4 touser=kcc4