[Solved] Dynamic HD 100 GB - full?

[Bastet]

Hello!

Because I do not have enough disk space on my notebook, I created a 100 GB dynamic vdi and moved it to an external HD (Host: Windows XP, Guest: Fedora 10). After I moved it to the external HD (i deleted the "old mashine" on Virtualbox and created a "new system" using the vdi on the external HD) I installed Fedora 10. This worked without any problems.
When I tried to install the Guest Additions Fedora asked me to install some packages. I started the installation, but got the following message:

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Host system reported disk full: VM execution is suspended. You can resume after freeing some space.
Details:
Fehler ID: DevATA_DISKFULL
Dringlichkeit: Warnung
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The vdi on the external HD has actually the following size: 3.99 GB
Free Space on external HD: 237 GB

Does anyone has any idea how to solve this problem?
(I cannot create a fixed 100GB vdi on my notebook because I do not have enough free space.)

Bastet

[mpack]

Taking a wild guess, I'd say your external drive was formatted using the FAT32 filesystem, which has a 4GB limit on file sizes. You would need to reformat it to use the NTFS filesystem.

[dmcgraw]

How is the external drive formatted, FAT32?

FAT32 drives have a 4GB file size limit.

[Bastet]

Hi,

I have to check the formatting. I didn't change the formatting (it was "pre-formatted") and didn't bother to check until now.

If this is the problem, I could solve it by making a new partition formatted in NTFS filesystem, right?

EDIT: It i indeed FAT32. Thanks for the hint.

[baf]

You could convert that partition to ntfs and this should not lose any data.

from a command prompt

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convert x: /fs:ntfs

replace x with your driveletter