#MACOS RESIZE PARTITION VIRTUALMACHINE FREE#
#MACOS RESIZE PARTITION VIRTUALMACHINE WINDOWS#

mine is located under ~/VirtualBox VMs/CentOS7/CentOS. If you don't know where it is, look at your Virtualbox Manager GUI virtualbox -> settings -> storage -> *.vdi -> location e.g.

Go into the directory of your *.vdi image.

I'm using a CentOS7 virtualbox, and I finally enlarged my partition /dev/mapper/centos-root - gparted doesn't work for me because I do not have a desktop on CentOS7 virtualbox.

Check whether the filesystem extended or not with creating a huge file:.

Step 3: Enter an amount of new disk space and. Step 2: Click Hard Disk on left panel, then click Expand on the right, and then click OK on the bottom. Step 1: Click VM from top menu bar, then click Settings, or click Edit Virtual Machine Settings in a virtual machine tab. Lvm lvresize -l 126858 /dev/VolGroup/lv_root In this case : 122880 + 3978 = 126858 <- will be used in the next command

Calculate the sum of the values above.

Virtual Machine -> Settings -> Storage-> Controller IDE (Right Click on gparted-live-x.xx.x-x-ixxx.iso) -> Remove Attachement

Unmount gparted-live-x.xx.x-x-ixxx.iso.

Apply and wait until the operations finished.

Right click the partition which is disabled and select 'Enable Active Partion'.

Extend Partition as much as possible from GUI (for this case 500GB).

Right click on partitions and if 'possible' click on 'Disable Active Partion'.

Choose default values with pressing 'Enter', 'Enter'. Run virtual machine, Virtual Machine will boot from this CD. Virtual Machine -> Settings -> Storage -> Controller IDE (Right Click) -> Add CD/DVD -> Select gparted-live-x.xx.x-x-ixxx.iso file For example to do disk size ~500 GB => 512000 $ VBoxManage modifymedium 'path_of_vdi_file' -resize 512000Ĭhoose *.vdi file instead of *.wmdk file as disk Virtual Machine -> Settings -> Storage -> Controller : SATA (Right Click on *.wmdk file) -> Remove Attachment -> Add HardDisk and choose newly created *.vdi fileĭownload 'gparted-live-x.xx.x-x-ixxx.iso' file from.

#MACOS RESIZE PARTITION VIRTUALMACHINE WINDOWS#

Open windows terminal: $ VBoxManage clonehd -format VDI 'path_of_wmdk_file' 'path_of_vdi_file' Observe disk format of the virtualbox file, if it is not *.vdi, convert disk format from *.wmdk to *.vdi. The detailed steps are below (tested with 'Virtual Machine CentOS 6.4' and 'VirtualBox 4.2.18') Add created disk space to Linux FileSystem.

#MACOS RESIZE PARTITION VIRTUALMACHINE FREE#

Modify the filesystem to allocate free space for your drive with GParted.

Resize the disk to create free space with VBoxManage Tool.Clone your VMDK to VDI format with VBoxManage Tool.

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