[ale] mint 13 vm running out of storage space

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi Don,

I like the way you think.  Maybe I can do this in one step.  Instead of a temporary virtual drive, I'll just create a 2nd bigger one.  I'll use clonezilla to clone the original to the 2nd one, shut down, swap the virtual sata connections, and detach the original drive.  It would be just like a hdd upgrade on a physical pc.  I think I'll try that.  It may be the simplest solution.  Thanks for the tip.

Sincerely,

Ron



Don Kramer <donkramer at gmail.com> wrote:

>My two cents: Create a temporary virtual drive, boot a Clonezilla .iso
>in
>VirtualBox to backup  the current VM drive to that temporary drive you
>just
>created. Once done create a larger virtual drive and then run
>Clonezilla
>again to restore the backup image from that temporary virtual drive to
>the
>new larger virtual drive. Then make the new larger virtual drive the
>primary drive of the VM.
>
>
>On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Michael B. Trausch
><mbt at naunetcorp.com>wrote:
>
>>  On 10/13/2013 06:15 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>
>> The host computer intentionally doesn't have java on it for security
>reasons.  So I cannot run eclipse that way.
>>
>>
>> There is no reason to do that.  That said, if that's what you want to
>do,
>> the performance hit is all yours.  :-)
>>
>>
>>  I was about to get it working, then I ran into this disk space
>problem.  The emulator won't boot.  I have about 4 hours invested in
>configuring this vm, so the redoing it route represents a substantial
>degree of pain.  I may try to delete the swap space and annex some of
>that digital real estate.
>>
>>
>> It is a good idea to install "full-featured" VMs with a minimum of 25
>GB
>> of space, all on a single / partition, and as I mentioned in my
>previous
>> email, on top of LVM.  This gives you a great deal of flexibility
>should
>> you need to grow later—in fact, it's one of the major reasons behind
>the
>> existence of LVM.
>>
>>
>>  You would think you could just click a button in virtualbox and
>change the hard drive limits.
>>
>>
>> This is difficult for a number of reasons.
>>
>> When an operating system is installed on a hard disk—physical or
>> virtual—it comes with partition tables and partitions on it.  For
>BIOS
>> partitions, the partition table exists at the beginning of the disk. 
>For
>> GPT-formatted disks, which should be used by modern systems, there
>are *
>> two* copies of the partition table—one at the beginning of the disk
>and
>> one at the end of the disk.
>>
>> Because this is a virtual *HDD* and *HDD*s cannot be resized, well,
>> that's a reasonable limitation.
>>
>> What it boils down to is that you add disk space to a VM the same way
>you
>> do to a real host:  Add a second drive and append it to your setup
>(if
>> you're using LVM), or create a second drive and move the data over to
>it
>> (hopefully putting LVM on that so that you have the ability to grow
>later).
>>
>>
>>     — Mike
>>
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>>
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