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Trick to increase a fixed sized VDI using vboxmanage (Virtual Box) - Mark - 01-12-2013
I had a virtual machine with a 10GB fixed VDI which is now full.. a trick is to convert the fixed VDI in to a dynamically expanding VDI, increase the size of it and then convert it back in to a fixed VDI.
VBoxManage can be found in: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\
Convert a Fixed size VDI in to a dynamically Expanding VDI
VBoxManage clonehd [old-VDI] [new-VDI] --variant Standard
Increase the size of a dynamically expanding VDI
VBoxManage modifyhd [VDI] --resize [megabytes]
Convert dynamic VDI back to fixed VDI
VBoxManage clonehd [old-VDI] [new-VDI] --variant Fixed
Go to settings in Oracle VM VirtualBox, tell the virtual machine to use the new VDI.
I then had to boot the VM to a gparted disk and expand the drive to use the extra space..
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