Dynamically allocated storage disk does not resize beyond

[Royan]

I've setup a Dynamically allocated storage (VDI) with a virtual size of 64GB

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However it does not get resized automatically beyond 8GB particularly under the root partition (/dev/sda1):

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xyz@make:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       2.3G  2.0G  148M  94% /
udev            3.9G  4.0K  3.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs           1.6G  304K  1.6G   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /run/shm
/dev/sda6       5.2G  292M  4.6G   6% /home

What am I going wrong?

[mpack]

Moved to "Linux Guests" since your Windows Host is irrelevant to the question asked.

I'm not sure what you were expecting, but if Linux is not allowing you to store more than 8GB in a partition, then that must be the size of the partition.

[Royan]

Which partition is supposed to be dynamic?

[Perryg]

The virtual drive is dynamic not partitions. From what I see your drive has been partitioned to specific sizes. Did you happen to format the drive to use LVM?

[mpack]

Which partition is supposed to be dynamic?

VirtualBox works at a hardware level. Partitions are software (guest OS) constructs and hence meaningless.