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VirtualBox: Increasing size of the virtual disk.

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Technical Disk Increase Space Vbox
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I am using Virtual Box 6.1 and will use it to expand the disk space for one my VBox Ubuntu image which was almost full.

VirtualBox 6.1.18 About dialog

Click on File > Virtual Media Manager

VirtualBox Virtual Media Manager listing the linux_mint, Ubuntu.vdi and Ubuntu.vhd disks

You can see the linux mint vdi this is the disk which I increased size for using simple steps.

Step-1 : Clone the disk
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It is always recommended to ensure you have a copy that you can maintain in case of any irrecoverable failures.

  • Click on Copy
  • Follow the steps in the wizard
VirtualBox copy-disk wizard: choosing VDI as the disk image file type

Step - 2 Modify the attributes
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Select the copy of the disk you just created and

Disk attributes for Ubuntu.vdi showing a size of 30 GB
Disk type dropdown: Normal, Immutable, Writethrough, Shareable, Multi-attach

I will increase by 2 GB

Disk size increased to 32 GB

Step 3: Resize
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Boot up the machine and you can see some free space which you can adjust using any disk tool of you choice

GNOME Disks showing the 34 GB virtual disk with a 32 GB ext4 partition and 2.1 GB of free space

You can click the gear for selected filesystem and increase the size.

GNOME Disks Resize Volume dialog to grow the partition into the free space
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