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Subject: Resizing VirtualBox disk
From: richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 17:58:56 -0500
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On Feb 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> 
> Funny story: I only had 12MB left on the VM.  Windows XP doesn't come
> with a partition resizing tool, and I didn't have enough disk space left
> to install one ;)

Boot a GNU Parted Live CD and use that to resize the partition after expanding the disk image.

--Rich P.

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- Resizing VirtualBox disk
  - From: david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org (David Kramer)

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