Re: VirtualBox help

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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