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dynamic guest drive not resizing though way less than limit
Posted: 7. Apr 2009, 16:00
by geo316
I've created a 15 gig dynamic drive for my win xp vm. It shows up in the vm (my computer/drive c/properties)) as a 4 gig drive. I figured that it didnt matter since the drive size would expand as needed, however when I started to install a few things the VM quickly ran out of disk space. Why didnt the drive expand? Is there something I need to do to get the dynamic drive to allot more space to the VM?
The drive the vdi resides on has tons of space so its not being limited by the host (that I can see).
Help!
Re: dynamic guest drive not resizing
Posted: 7. Apr 2009, 16:08
by Sasquatch
Two things you can check.
1: Is the VDI on a file system that supports large files? FAT32 has a 4 GB file size limit.
2: Is the partition you created inside the Guest taking up the full 15 GB?
I suspect the first to be your problem.
Re: dynamic guest drive not resizing though way less than limit
Posted: 7. Apr 2009, 17:42
by geo316
Sasquatch wrote:Two things you can check.
1: Is the VDI on a file system that supports large files? FAT32 has a 4 GB file size limit.
2: Is the partition you created inside the Guest taking up the full 15 GB?
I suspect the first to be your problem.
Thanks for the reply!
The VDI is actually on a Linux file system... ext3... that shouldn't be a problem right?
Now that I think about it, the vdi is a copy of a 4 gig vdi that I created with clonezilla. I should have mentioned that. You've got me thinking that I just need to expand the partition from inside the guest...
details tonight... thanks again.