Friday, May 28, 2010

How to expand VirtualBox harddrive

(1) create another virtual harddrive in VirtualBox and hook it up as Primary slave (e.g. sdb) to the primary master (e.g. sda) you originally have.
(2) Download gparted live cd and boot up the system in Virtualbox with it
(3) Find the primary slave hard drive (e.g. sdb) and create a partition table for it
(4) Now you got two options
i. Go back to primary master and copy the partition content and paste it in primary slave, then expand it by "resizing"
ii. make the primary slave another partition and use it for extra space

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