Location: /Users/user/Library/VirtualBox/HardDisks/XP.vdi Locate VDI file $ VBoxManage list hdds UUID: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx Shut down virtual machine & quit VirtualBox 1. If your VirtualBox virtual machine is running low on disk space, here's how to allocate more: 0. ( UPDATE: See this post for a far easier and faster method.) Increase hard disk size in VirtualBox 4.x # The kernel still uses the old table.Increase hard disk size in VirtualBox 4.x WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes This can be done with fdisk by removing and creating the same partition with a different last fdisk /dev/sdaĭisk /dev/sda: 16.8 GB, 16777216000 bytesĢ28 heads, 28 sectors/track, 5132 cylinders, total 32768000 sectors So now, you have to resize the size of the partition sda1. You can check that the hard disk size has not changed df -hįilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted onīut you can see that the disk has more space lsblk Now start the virtual machine and log into it. If the size of your virtual disk inside Virtualbox is not big enough to save all your data you can always increase its size and resize the partition.įirst resize the your virtual hard drive, you have to indicate the final size in VBoxManage modifyhd disk.vdi -resize 16000Ġ%.10%.20%.30%.40%.50%.60%.70%.80%.90%.100%

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