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OpenSUSE 12.3 with KDE 4 notified me that i was running low on disk space on my home folder, so using the modifyhd command, I doubled the size of the VDI. Soon after, the Guest OS (OpenSUSE 12.3) will not allow me as user to log in, but works OK with root. I can however, log in with user name in console mode. From the console, I can use startx and get the GUI going (as root).

My question is, could this problem be related to re-sizing the VDI hard disk?

Thanks for any help.

Did you resize the partition inside the guest aswell?

noteirak wrote:Did you resize the partition inside the guest aswell?

duhh... ok, guilty as charged. How should I proceed? I am familiar with Gparted, can I use it in KDE?

The message says I'm at 0% of available space on the Home partition. Yet when I look it up in Dolphin it says only using 30% of available space.

Thanks for ur help.

Sounds like you are using LVM, so Gparted won't help. Google how to increase the home partition using LVM if that is indeed what you have.

No LVM, have a VDI - dynamically allocated image - and want to use KDE Partition Manager. How should I proceed? not much in the VBox user manual other than "you will typically next need to use a partition management tool inside the guest to adjust the main partition to fill the drive".

So far I figured out how to add a second VDI as a startup disk so the original main disk is not active, but partition management tool inside the guest will not resize partition.

The VDI is just like a physical hard drive - the VDI would be the raw hardware. You still need partitions on it. LVM would be your partitioning scheme.
Are you using LVM in the guest?

My guess is YES - although VirtualBox created a dynamically allocated image for the hard disk, it was the SUSE OS installer which used the default partitioning scheme, and from what I understand, that would be LVM.

Then you need to extend the logical volume within your VM, just like you would do it on a regular physical PC.

After downloading OpenSUSE RescueCD ISO I added it to the broken Vbox, set it up as a Live! CD and booted from there. Gparted the VDI hard disk and faster than u can say Bob ur uncle, I have a working, twice the space hard drive.

Thanks for all the help.