Drag the right edge of the partition to the end and then drag the left edge of the swap partition to bring it to the actual swap file size. Now select the swap partition and choose ‘Resize/Move’ option. Step Result: The extended partition size increased from 1.25 to 8.25GB, with 7GB unallocated space moving inside the extended partition. Click on ‘Resize/Move’ button and then click on Apply button. Now drag the right edge of the partition to the very end, this would mean that the free space following would become zero. I had the primary partition as 6.75GB, Extended Partition which held the swap at 1.25 GB and the unallocated space stood at 7GB. In the Popup window, note down the size of the partition. Select the Extended partition which contains the swap partition and right click and choose ‘Resize/Move’. It is not possible to move the swap partition to the end of the partition table directly and use the free space for the primary partition, hence follow the below steps one by one. Once GParted is loaded, you should be able to see the unpartitioned size available along with the primary partition and the swap partition. Start the VM machine and let it boot into GParted screen.
(Goto Settings -> Storage -> Click on one the CD Drive -> Under Attributes click on the CD icon and select ‘Choose a Virtual CD/DVD Disk file’) Setup the ISO to load as a CD Drive in VirtualBox. vboxmanage modifyhd "F:\VirtualBox\Mint 12.vdi" –-resize 15360 The re-size option takes the final size (in MB) of the disk after resizing (below I have set it to 15GB). Run the command vboxmanage as shown below, where “F:\VirtualBox\' is the directory where the vdi file exists and ‘Mint 12.vdi’ is the name of the vdi file. The process to re-size an existing VirtualBox hard disk for a Linux Guest OS is as follows: So I set on to find a way to increase the HDD size where Windows XP is setup as the host and Linux Mint is setup as the guest OS.
Within a week as Dropbox and Thunderbird sync started the free space came to zero very quickly. During the installation I had setup the HDD size to be 8GB and dynamic which could grow if required. I had already used VirtualBox earlier so I got started and installed Linux Mint.
Lately the urge to get back to Linux kicked in and immediately setting up a VM came to my mind. Ever since my desktop broke down six months ago, I was without a Linux machine.
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