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Re: VirtualBox help
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Re: VirtualBox help |
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Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:19:12 +0100 |
On Jan 4, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> On 2012-01-04 09:11, address@hidden wrote:
>> In my GUB installation, my VirtualBox ran out of space and peetered out.
>> So, I closed my VirtualBox down, resized the hard drive, and tried to boot
>> again.
>
> You know, resizing the harddrive (i.e. partition) does not resize the
> filesystem itself.
> So your filesystem is still just as full as it was before.
>> However, it cannot restart (some message about GNOME power something
>> something) and I think it's because the disk space is full. It's not even
>> recognizing my root password :-/
> Yes, that's a typical sign...
>
>> Does anyone know how to do delete files on a VBox from the outside so that I
>> can free up space? I know this question is more appropriate for a VirtualBox
>> forum, but I figured that one of you may know...
>
> There is a virtualbox-fuse file system, so you can mount a virtual harddrive
> and then delete files there....
>> Alternatively, if that doesn't work, does anyone know how to recover files
>> from a virtual hard drive?
> I think you simply want to enlarge the file system to the full virtual
> harddisk size, right?
> There's that nice gparted live ISO image, from which you can boot your
> virtual machine (download the iso (~100MB), set it as the virtual box's CD
> drive, change boot order to boot from CD and run your virtualbox) and then
> resize the file system to the full available space.
>
> I did exactly that with my WinXP virtual machine and it worked just fine.
Please disregard my previous e-mail - I answered my own questions.
Rheinhold's suggestion worked like a charm. May his name be lauded in all the
lands!
Cheers,
MS