[Bio-linux-list] How to expand the storage capacity of Bio-Linux

Steve Moss gawbul at gmail.com
Wed Mar 29 06:22:21 EDT 2017


I also like this link re. resizing - it has more screen dumps, though is
specific to VirtualBox -
http://www.tomordonez.com/virtualbox-resize-disk-vmdk-vdi/.

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On 29 March 2017 at 10:42, Tony Travis <dr.tony.travis at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29/03/17 09:00, 李国卫 wrote:
> > Dear Tony,
> >
> > I think I have got another problem right now. The default harddrive
> > storage capacity is about 100 GB for the Bio-Linux vmdk, I want to know
> > how to expand it out of my work needed.
> > Thanks for all the hard work you have done!
>
> Hi, Guowei.
>
> There isn't a simple way to expand the size of a virtual disk image,
> because you also have to resize the filesystem it contains. However,
> these links might help:
>
> > https://mariusvw.com/2017/03/01/how-to-resizegrow-a-vmware-
> or-virtualbox-disk/
> > https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.
> do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004047
>
> A simpler option is to create a new virtual disk and mount it as e.g.
>
>   /work
>
> This is what I do :-)
>
> HTH,
>
>   Tony.
>
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