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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxManage modifyhd - doesn't work
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:08:27
Message-Id: 20130226130810.GA26359@syscon7.inet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxManage modifyhd - doesn't work by Mick
1 On 02/26/13 08:41, Mick wrote:
2 >On Tuesday 26 Feb 2013 00:57:49 Joseph wrote:
3 >> On 02/25/13 16:29, Joseph wrote:
4 >> >I'm trying to resize XP partition, the procedure suppose to be simple:
5 >> >VBoxManage modifyhd /full/path/to/hd.vdi --resize new_size
6 >> >
7 >> >so, I run:
8 >> >VBoxManage modifyhd /home/joseph/VirtualBox\ VMs/xp-clinic/xp-clinic.vdi
9 >> >--resize 15000
10 >> >0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
11 >> >
12 >> >The original size was 10G and still is.
13 >>
14 >> Actually the storage is showing as 14.6GB so that is correct but when I
15 >> boot windows I only see about 600Mb free disk space instead of 4+GB
16 >
17 >Stick a gparted LiveCD in the machine (or boot from an image on your drive by
18 >pointing the virtual CDROM device to it) and extend the end of the MSWindows
19 >partition to fill in the size of the virtual disk you just enlarged.
20 >
21 >When you reboot into MSWindows (detach the LiveCD first) and then allow
22 >MSWindows to run and complete chkdsk - or your data could be lost.
23 >--
24 >Regards,
25 >Mick
26
27 I just realize it, thanks. That is exactly what I did, gparted worked without a problem.
28
29 --
30 Joseph