
Following is what I had to do to make it available for using, How about adding a new empty disk of larger size? Brilliant? So that is what I tried nextįrom the disk manager created a new disk, it was 20GB in my case. While this was feasible I did not pursue this one, since I was pressed with time. Install VM from scratch with larger disk.Then I tried with mounting the disk with a live linux disk from PuppyLinux, failed still 🙁 So I thought about next alternative


Tried with resize2fs and fsck command and they complained the partition being mounted or busy. Though it did increase the size of the disk, I was not able to make linux aware of the increased size.

Ran this command to increase the size of disk VBoxManage modifymedium disk '/Users/robin/VirtualBox VMs/oracle6.10/oracle6.10.vdi' -resize 20480 Was working on compiling mysql server from source on a Oracle Linux 6 virtual machine and the root partition got full.
