Re: VirtualBox help

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

On 2012-01-04 09:11, address@hidden wrote:
> In my GUB installation, my VirtualBox ran out of space and peetered out.
> So, I closed my VirtualBox down, resized the hard drive, and tried to boot 
> again.

You know, resizing the harddrive (i.e. partition) does not resize the 
filesystem itself.
So your filesystem is still just as full as it was before.
> However, it cannot restart (some message about GNOME power something something) 
> and I think it's because the disk space is full.  It's not even recognizing my 
> root password :-/
Yes, that's a typical sign...

> Does anyone know how to do delete files on a VBox from the outside so that I 
> can free up space? I know this question is more appropriate for a VirtualBox 
> forum, but I figured that one of you may know...

There is a virtualbox-fuse file system, so you can mount a virtual 
harddrive and then delete files there....
> Alternatively, if that doesn't work, does anyone know how to recover files from 
> a virtual hard drive?
I think you simply want to enlarge the file system to the full virtual 
harddisk size, right?
There's that nice gparted live ISO image, from which you can boot your 
virtual machine (download the iso (~100MB), set it as the virtual box's 
CD drive, change boot order to boot from CD and run your virtualbox) and 
then resize the file system to the full available space.

I did exactly that with my WinXP virtual machine and it worked just fine.


Cheers,
Reinhold

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