Expanding Solaris_11_Express_Developer VM Disk

[GraceBT]

Looking at previous posts in 2009 and 2010 regarding expanding Solaris Disk Space I found
no answers. I Am working to expand the usable disk space on my VirtualBox installation
of Solaris_11_Express_Developer from the 16 GiB that is available after importing the
appliance to 200 GiB. The first thing that I did was to create a .VDI file from the .VMDK
file as follows:

C:\Users\grace\VirtualBox VMs\Solaris_11_Express_Developer_VM_1>vboxmanage clone hd
Solaris_11_Express_Developer_VM-disk1.vmdk Solaris_11_Express_Developer_VM-disk1.vdi --format vdi
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Clone hard disk created in format 'vdi'. UUID: c212f18b-d214-4895-9b03-c8607f9e5493

Then I expanded the .VDI file:

C:\Users\grace\VirtualBox VMs\Solaris_11_Express_Developer_VM_1>vboxmanage modifyhd
Solaris_11_Express_Developer_VM-disk1.vdi --resize 200000
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%

Using settings/Storage I re-assigned the virtual disk using the .vdi rather than the
.vmdk. This seemed succesful.

I looked at a "vanilla install of the appliance using gparted and saw the following (attachment 1)

Attachment 1

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I started the VM and using gparted I examined the virtual disk and observed a new
large unallocated space. Now it is a matter of assigning this space to my working
solaris partition. (attachment 2)

attachment 2

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Now my question is how do I assign the unallocated 179.31 Gib to the available working space?
I assume this invloves appending it to the existing solaris 15.99 Gib.

I made a snapshot of the existing configuration. Can anyone help me with the next steps
required to accomplish my goal of having an enlarged Solaris_11_Express_Developer VM?

Thank You in advance for any help or suggestions that You may have to offer

Regards,

73
-Grace
NNNN
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[GraceBT]

I was able to partition the unformatted section to EXT3. Gparted now shows:

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/dev/dsk/c/c7t0d0s0 is now part of active ZFS pool rpool.

After the typing "pkg update pkg" and rebooting I was able to use the
update manager, but I still do not have space to get and install the updates.

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What do I need to do now so that I can install updates?

I would still like to make the additional space contiguous. I am not sure what good
the ZFS pool is? I don't want to have to worry about where things are installed. Any
discussion about this might be helpful.

Again, thank You for any help that You may be able to offer.

Regards,

73
-Grace
NNNN
z

[GraceBT]

For those who have found this post, I was able to resolve my issue and the
details are available on a different forum. Please refer to the OTN Discussionn
forum forum for Solaris/Solaris 11 thread: "Adjusting Solaris_11_Express_Developer
VM Disk Partitions". The URL is:

https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread ... 8&tstart=0

I was successful in adding the additional disk space that I wanted and my issue was
resolved.

Also, thank all of You here and this forum for Your Help.

Regards,

73
-Grace
NNNN
z