On 29/05/13 20:34, Erlend Boe wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a reason why sailfishos.vdi has a virtual size of only 1.95 GB?
Yes - during the creation process a full image is created and I decided to use a 'reasonable' size. In the futre I plan to automate the process below on boot to allow automatic response to VDI growth. > My application fails to install, as I have a mysql DB that is 1.7 GB. > > Is there a way that I can extend the virtual size? > I'm on mac osx 10.8. Yes, but first make a backup of the vdi - really! Also this won't work if you have vbox snapshots so ensure you remove any you have. poweroff emulator and from the host shell run: VBoxManage modifyhd ~/SailfishOS/emulator/sailfishos.vdi --resize 65536 This is very fast! Reboot emulator ssh in as root and run: fdisk /dev/sda Type each letter followed by <return> in the following - all the '1' are digit one - no lowercase L :) There's a few where we want the default Now to delete partition 1, type: d recreate using full size, type: n p 1 <ret> <ret> make it bootable, type a 1 Now we use the 'expert menu' to set the partition start to 1, type: x b 1 1 r Write and exit, type w Easiest now is to reboot so back at the emulator root prompt: reboot When it reboots, login as root again and run: resize2fs /dev/sda1 This is very fast! You should now have a 64Gb disk HTH > > PS: I am working around the issue by sharing a directory with virtual box, so > the issue not blocking me. > > Regards, > Erlend > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list
