From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-145563-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9D4D198005 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:08:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A7ADE0769; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:08:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail129c7.megamailservers.com (mail129c7-2520.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A0D3E0733 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:08:12 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin.sys-concept.com Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail129c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id r1QD86jd025031 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:08:11 -0500 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 927B7203DD2; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:08:10 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:08:10 -0700 From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxManage modifyhd - doesn't work Message-ID: <20130226130810.GA26359@syscon7.inet> References: <20130225232952.GD30055@syscon7.inet> <20130226005749.GF30055@syscon7.inet> <201302260842.40298.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201302260842.40298.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=1.1 cv=HephILaxdiIcZBGymGV80kTppfrCi99HHE1kmkFqajc= c=1 sm=1 a=wom5GMh1gUkA:10 a=F4FOtCLeICsA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=GeUhMOpy0xAuaCs21OcA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.512CB3BB.0147,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-Archives-Salt: 7735834a-a5d5-4e97-aa8d-32265064d2e3 X-Archives-Hash: 65eb17139147151f69954a7d65d0230f On 02/26/13 08:41, Mick wrote: >On Tuesday 26 Feb 2013 00:57:49 Joseph wrote: >> On 02/25/13 16:29, Joseph wrote: >> >I'm trying to resize XP partition, the procedure suppose to be simple: >> >VBoxManage modifyhd /full/path/to/hd.vdi --resize new_size >> > >> >so, I run: >> >VBoxManage modifyhd /home/joseph/VirtualBox\ VMs/xp-clinic/xp-clinic.vdi >> >--resize 15000 >> >0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100% >> > >> >The original size was 10G and still is. >> >> Actually the storage is showing as 14.6GB so that is correct but when I >> boot windows I only see about 600Mb free disk space instead of 4+GB > >Stick a gparted LiveCD in the machine (or boot from an image on your drive by >pointing the virtual CDROM device to it) and extend the end of the MSWindows >partition to fill in the size of the virtual disk you just enlarged. > >When you reboot into MSWindows (detach the LiveCD first) and then allow >MSWindows to run and complete chkdsk - or your data could be lost. >-- >Regards, >Mick I just realize it, thanks. That is exactly what I did, gparted worked without a problem. -- Joseph