I have a strange problem with my VDI based drive in VirtualBox, which is that the drive does not expand and this has for some reason also resulted in my x
not being able to load.
df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 4.3G 4.3G 0 100% /
udev 1.1G 4.1k 1.1G 1% /dev
tmpfs 421M 750k 420M 1% /run
none 5.3M 0 5.3M 0% /run/lock
none 1.1G 0 1.1G 0% /run/shm
none 105M 8.2k 105M 1% /run/user
overflow 1.1M 0 1.1M 0% /tmp
And the drive size:
Is there a way for Ubuntu to reallocate its actual space?
GParted:
Attempt to expand not possible:
Best Answer
By using GParted i simply copied the partition i wanted to resize and pasted it into the unallocated partition and resized it. It started copying the partition over and problem was solved.
Since i have already done this i am unable to viualize by screenshots, but there is an
copy
andpaste
function when you right click on a partition, so the procedure is simply:Copy
unallocated
partition and clickPaste
.An image of the right click menu:
As you can see on the image above
/dev/sda1
is the old partition that was too small. The new partition which i am booting from currently is/dev/sda3
.If you delete your old partition, you will need to install grub in the new one (no, it isn't copied together with your data). Boot with a live CD and run the following commands: