Filesystem diskpace full on LInux Host running on VirtualBox

[jj007]

Hi All,
I have a Windows 10 Host running VirtualBox 5.2.20 with Oracle Linux Server 6.7 guest. The filesystems disk space is running at 100%. Please advise how do I resolve this issue.

[oracle@soa-training /]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_soatraining-lv_root
                       19G  6.0G   12G  35% /
tmpfs                 5.2G  224K  5.2G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             477M  169M  279M  38% /boot
/dev/sdb1              25G   24G  4.0K 100% /u01
/dev/sdc               32G  347M   30G   2% /oracle
/dev/sr0               56M   56M     0 100% /media/VBox_GAs_5.2.20

How to allocate more space to /dev/sdb1 -- /u01.

Thanks

[andyp73]

The VBoxManage command will allow you to increase the size of the .vdi file. More details can be found in the user manual: Ch 8.23. VBoxManage modifymedium.

You will then need to use a tool such as GParted to increase the size of the partition within Linux to fill the additional space.

-Andy.

[socratis]

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1              25G   24G  4.0K 100% /u01
/dev/sdc               32G  347M   30G   2% /oracle

You also have about 30 GB available on /dev/sdc. I don't know the details of your setup/work, but you could potentially move some files from /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdc.

Thinking outside of VirtualBox now...

[jj007]

I have not set this virtual machine up. This is a Oracle provided developers VM. and the u01 folder has all the software installs so not very confident of moving files around.

Is there any other way, I can tackle this.

In the VirtualBox Manger, I managed to resize the vmdk disk size from 25GB to 35GB.

However, my difficulty is assign that extra space to /dev/sdb1.

Andy- I see few suggest about Gparted,but could not find how to install and use it. I tried the command line tool parted to resize the device. But no luck so far.

Please advise.

[socratis]

In the VirtualBox Manger, I managed to resize the vmdk disk size from 25GB to 35GB. However, my difficulty is assign that extra space to /dev/sdb1.

Isn't each VMDK its own /dev/sd*? With the VM shutdown, right-click on the VM in VirtualBox Manager. Show Log. ZIP the VBox.log (ONLY) and attach it to your reply.

As for Gparted, you don't install it; you boot from it, it's a Live ISO. You just put it to your VM's CD drive and you boot from it...