Pete Ford wrote: > sdavmor wrote: >> dick hoogendijk wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:40:01 -0800 sdavmor >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> but I want to grow my virtual from 60gb to 80gb for data that >>>> should remain in the WIndows vdi. What is the proper way to >>>> do this so I don't lose any of this data? >>>> >>> Why don't you attach a second (third, fourth) virtual harddisk >>> to the windows image? You have at least four IDE ports. Two >>> masters/ two slaves. >>> >> Sure. I could do that. I may well end up there, but I'd like to >> find out if there is some way of gracefully and conveniently >> growing an existing vdi. Which would be my preferred course of >> action. Thanks for the prompt replay and suggestion. >> > If you boot the VM using a Ubuntu live disc, you can use some of > the NTFS tools (ntfsclone, ntfsresize) to duplicate your windows > file system onto a larger drive. I haven't tested this, but I did > do effectively the same thing with a non-virtual machine to > transfer the whole system to a larger drive. Unfortunately the > details escape me, but I seem to remember the man pages for > ntfsclone and ntfsresize were pretty helpful...
Thanks. I got it done a slightly different way. But this is good to keep in the back of my mind. -- Cheers, SDM -- a 21st Century Schizoid Man Systems Theory internet music project: <www.systemstheory.net> on MySpace: <www.myspace.com/systemstheory> on Last FM: <www.last.fm/music/Systems+Theory> get "Codetalkers" *free* at <www.mikedickson.org.uk/codetalkers> NP: nothing _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
