trouble enlarging a virtual disk

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sean_p
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trouble enlarging a virtual disk

Post by sean_p »

I've followed the FAQ for enlarging a virtual disk, but I'm still having trouble. The setup: MacOS High Sierra host, Win 7 guest. The steps: I successfully run VBoxManage, getting the 0%... 10%... etc, all the way to 100%. Then when I start VirtualBox, the new hard drive size displays correctly under the storage details. However, when I fire up gparted, it still only shows the original disk size as available to allocate. The Win 7 guest also has a partition management tool installed, and it likewise only sees the original value of disk size available to the partitions.

I'm a bit baffled. Any thoughts?
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Re: trouble enlarging a virtual disk

Post by ChipMcK »

and now you get to do Step 2
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Re: trouble enlarging a virtual disk

Post by mpack »

It's all in the faq: Howto: Resize a Virtual Drive. Note in particular what it says about snapshots.
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