Comments for How to resize a VirtualBox disk partition at http://www.my-guides.net/en , comment 1 to 88 out of 20 comments http://www.my-guides.net/en Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:41:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1182 Thanks so much for your guide, minor differneces (new version of Virtualbox), but no head-scratchers! I didn't think of booting my VM with a liveCD...I should think of it as an actual computer sometimes, that may help :) Again, Thanks! - rob haag Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:42:55 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1181 Worked like a charm for me with XP Pro... great that you put this out there. - Kenny Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:46:44 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1176 Thank you - worked a treat after a while of trying to achieve this. A minor thing which might be worth mentioning for others. I don't know if it is always the case, but while carrying out the copy procedure in GParted, I nearly reset the machine thinking it had failed as there was no progress indication - just the bar moving back and forth but nothing else to indicate it was copying my 10GB of HDD... - DP Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:54:21 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1171 Just like most of those commenting, a big thank you. Pictures tell a lot. Enlarged a Windows XP guest from 10G to 20G on an OSX Snow Leopard host. - Jim Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:04:43 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1170 A very informative and detailed howto, thanks very much, helped me!! - Scorn Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:55:49 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1161 Great piece of writing mate....keep up the good work :) - BhakthiL Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:18:57 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1145 Thanks for the info about the changes on the latest Gparted (0.4.8-6) Dr_ST. :) - axel Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:36:23 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1142 rsv's post on July 14, 2009 worked perfectly for me. I used it to resize the VDI for an Ubuntu guest running on a Windows XP host. I doubled the size of the VDI, and the really sweet part is that the utilization of my root file system dropped from 95% to just 59%! ;) Thanks, rsv! - BluesBrother Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:09:13 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1139 Hi, thanks a lot for the wonderful and complete setup, it worked like a charm! One step is missing before copying the content, one has to define a partition type to the new vdi, and then you can paste it. Little correction, but just in case someone would be troubled :-) cheers ! - Dr_ST Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:52:05 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1111 Thank you for sharing this Dave. :) I also believe you faced this problem because of the Power off you did. But since you managed to successfully resize the partition everything is ok! - axel Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:43:10 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1104 Thanks for this guide! I encountered a few snags while growing a Windows XP machine, but ultimately got things to work: At the end of the copy and resize, gparted complained that it couldn't resize the partition, since the filesystem was unclean. But after its display refreshed, it showed the new size anyway (but, as I later found out, this wasn't correct). I think this was because I had used VirtualBox's "Power off the machine" option instead of doing a proper ACPI shutdown. I tried booting the new drive, but I got the same error as Robert Seetzen ("hard disk read error, press ctrl+alt+del to reboot"). I used Annette's link (February 19, 2009), which let me boot the drive successfully. Once I had booted the new drive, it still showed the old size, despite gparted's claim to have resized it. This was, of course, because of the "filesystem unclean" error. So I started gparted again and resized the partition to the same size. And Windows finally saw the extra space. Hope this helps someone else :) - Ankur Dave Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:46:32 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1057 Thanks for your comment s3agull. It will help for sure anyone trying to resize the virtualbox partition of its Linux distribution! :) - axel Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:06:38 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1050 Thank you very much for this incredibly detailed guide :) I used it to resize a virtual hard disk with Ubuntu installed, and VirtualBox running on a Vista-64bit machine. NOTE: After the steps above, when first running the virtualized Ubuntu, i had to reinstall grub (boot manager) by using the Ubuntu Live CD: - boot the virtual hard disk with the Ubuntu Live CD - check (for example with the gparted GUI) the name of the partition which will contain the grub - reinstall grub on the right partition - reboot from hard disk Hope will help ;) - s3agull Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:57:56 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1036 good tutorial, thanx! - kitsos Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:16:27 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1032 Worked like a charm. Thanks for writing it up! - jay Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:24:47 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1030 Thank you all for your comments. Thanks reayn for the info as well! :) - axel Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:39:07 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1029 The steps are pretty much the same up to creating a new vdi hard-disk and clicking on the settings of the VM you want to run to add this new hard-disk. Then log into ubuntu VM and install gparted > sudo aptitude install gparted then using gparted, format the new hard disk, close gparted and then mount the new hard disk > mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk and you have more space! - reayn Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:38:42 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1028 working like a charm :) great post man... - Meena Fawzy Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:50:30 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1026 You did a really nice job of documenting a 'scary' process. It worked perfectly. Well done. - Gary Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:47:04 +0100 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/26/#comment-1024 The disk I'm resizing doesn't have an operating system on it (yet) so I can't boot it up, and the the interface in my version of Virtualbox is different; but excepting for those discrepancies I tried to follow your instructions as closely as possible. - Rob Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:25:24 +0100