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epsilones
Asked: 2016-03-18 02:56:56 +0800 CST

expanding VM with gparted

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I want to resize my Ubuntu VM, so I installed another Ubuntu installation (using VirtualBox) and ran Gparted on it. Here's a screenshot of the state of the partition: enter image description here

In /dev/sda6, I have 3GB of the 14.3GB that are already used. I believe this is related to the Ubuntu VM which I am currently in. My question is how can I expand the /dev/sda1 in order to get 14.3Gb - 3Gb more space ?

dual-boot

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  1. It seems that what you are having trouble with is a communication between Virtualbox, and your physical machine. When you load any OS/VM in Virtualbox you are asked to allocate a certain set space that it can use. What happens is that a "fake disk" is created, and that is what is used for the VM. In the current latest version of Ubuntu Virtualbox, I do not believe you can communicate physical data between partitions of Virtualbox -> Your hard-drive (or vice-versa)

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