Resize a Virtual Box VM

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Jul 7, 2018, 11:59:49 PM7/7/18

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Skills Learned:

How to resize an existing virtual box VM to accommodate for large disk size requirement

General Highlights:

1. Use VBoxmanage command at DOS to resize virtual disk size

2. Download disk partitioning software such as Gpart from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

3. Use Gpart with VIrtual Box to re-organize Linux disk partition to make use of the newly increased virtual disk size

In this step, you will need to

i. delete the existing linux swap partition

ii. extend/merge the system partition to/with the newly allocated parition

iii rebuild the linux swap paritition (ensure you MUST select linux swap as the type of logical partition)

hints: ensure you select "linux swap"

Reference Steps:

Following a for detailed steps and b for demonstration of GPart

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