{"id":1946,"date":"2016-06-24T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avinton.com\/?page_id=1946"},"modified":"2021-11-09T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T06:28:04","slug":"extending-virtualbox-virtual-drive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avinton.com\/en\/academy\/extending-virtualbox-virtual-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending VirtualBox Virtual Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you run out of disk space on your VM<\/p>\n<h3>1. Shutdown the VM<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>2. Use the <strong>VBoxManage<\/strong> command to increase the size of your virtual disk.<\/h3>\n<p>In my windows machine the command to resize it to ~12GB I used:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"\">cd \\\"Users\\James\\VirtualBox VMs\\Avinton Ubuntu VM\"\r\n\"C:\\Program Files\\Oracle\\VirtualBox\\VBoxManage\" modifyhd \"Avinton Ubuntu VM.vdi\" --resize 12000<\/pre>\n<p>MAC has a similar command.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"\">VBoxManage modifyhd \/Users\/louise\/VirtualBox\\ VMs\/Ubuntu\/Ubuntu.vdi \u2013resize 15000<\/pre>\n<p>Then open the VM and install gparted<\/p>\n<pre class=\"\">sudo apt-get install gparted<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>3. Delete the secondary partitions<\/h3>\n<p>Save changes<br \/>\nRefresh devices<\/p>\n<h3>4. Extend the primary partition into the allocated space<\/h3>\n<p>Save changes[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you run out of disk space on your VM 1. 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