modifying the size of two disks .vdi

[Fielding]

I have reach a strange situation :
host windows 7 - 64 -16GB RaM
guest windows xp , with two data disks

I apply the command :

Vboxmanage modifyhd "Y:\VirtualBox\Data\Machines\WindowsXPpro-btwinVA-COMUNICACIONES\WindowsXPpro-btwinVA-COMUNICACIONES-disk2.vdi" --resize 50000 for one of the disks and seems quickly resized.

I observ this in the main VB window by the size indicated for disk2.vdi
But also observ a occupation of 67 MB.
I enter in the COMUNICACIONES machine and see that the old .vdi continues with the same size of 10 GB and the old occupation. No data loss. I have a security copy if necessary, but I don't understand what is happening.

Can you help me please ?


Best Regards

[Perryg]

Just increasing the size of the hard drive will not extend the primary partition to use the new space.
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[Fielding]

Just increasing the size of the hard drive will not extend the primary partition to use the new space.
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=50661

I'll try
Any problem i will comment
Best Regards

[Fielding]

I am trying
I boot from the gparted iso but only see the three virtual disks of 10 GB initially created, but don't see the new units of 50 GB
What am i doing bad ?




Simply i don't know how expand the primary partition to use the new space

Best Regards

[Fielding]

I have found this tutorial .
http://www.llakomy.com/articles/increas ... th-gparted

but really i don't see any unallocated space.
I only see the three original 10 GB disks , but no the new size created that i can see from outside the VM in the storage section.

Best Regards

Note : The two 10 GB disks are data disks inside the VM
I haven't try resize the system disk of 10 GB because is a VMDK and have to convert to vdi.

[Fielding]

A screenshot of the situation outside the VM

[Fielding]

May be in relation with the limit four IDE devices ?

[Perryg]

Are you booting the guest with the Gparted ISO in the guests virtual drive?
Do you have snapshots?

[Fielding]

Hello again Perry.
I have 5 snapshots
I am not able to understand well the second question. The GParted drive seems to be IDE secondary master. Please see my screenshot.

[Perryg]

I think I see what is happening. Since the VDI drives are not the primary drive Gparted is not seeing them.
I can see that the resize did work for the HDD but the partition will not show by 10GB and you can't extend the primary partition to use the new space.
I don't know if this is an XP host issue or not. Someone with XP as host will need to test.

The other thing is you can not resize a drive if you have snapshots. I have not tested this on secondary drives though. That I can try tomorrow.

[Perryg]

I go to this sooner and can tell you that if you have snapshots you can not resize the additional drives either.

[Fielding]

I go to this sooner and can tell you that if you have snapshots you can not resize the additional drives either.

Do you have any idea ?

Perhaps delete the snapshots ?

Clone the virtual machine ?

No solution ?

[Perryg]

The safest is to clone the guest. select to create a new guest as one file without snapshots. ( not sure the exact wording )
Then you will be able to see the new sizes in Gparted.

[Fielding]

I'll try and comment.
Best Regards

[Fielding]

Tomorrow more
I supposed i need to redimensionate again the hard disk before applying Gparted.
In the clone machine the HD are again 10 GB from outside according to the screenshot
Best Regards