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Solved. Perry, you were right. It was an Oracle Linux 6.8 (guest) issue all along. It was the Oracle Linux 6.8 installer which created the 70G in the "/home" dir location (automatically, without telling me) rather than attached to the "/" dir where I needed it (for naming purpose...

Thanks Perry, I'll work on that over the next couple days.

Perry - read the original post. It says "/" has only 25G available. Also, its entire size is only 50G (just as VirtualBox creates it by default). There is no way the 70G /home/app will fit in there, no matter what kind of "mv" command you use.

Thanks Martin. I wasn't aware there is so little experience with Oracle Linux here.

Someone else needs to chime in. You're making it way too complicated.

The question is about how to *use* VirtualBox, not how to configure it. Since you don't understand the original question, then the next question is "What's the easiest way to salvage the data, ie. the contents of the /home/app directory, so that it can be placed in the "/" directory o...

It is a VirtualBox question, because it requires a knowledge of VirtualBox to brainstorm the options to get out of this mess, for example maybe the "Create a CD" feature of VirtualBox to export and then import into a new VirtualBox (correctly configured this time, using the "Custom&qu...

Yes, I have root login, so permissions are not a problem.

1. Host is Windows 8.1
2. "App" is just a data directory which I created under "/home" in the guest Linux 6.8.

Simple question - how do I move an "app" directory (/home/app) from "/home" to "/" ? "/home/app" is 70G in size. "/" has only 25G free. The guest is Oracle Linux 6.8 VirtualBox version 5.1.22 I took all the disk defaults during installation. That's w...