# Turn off your Vagrant machine
$ vagrant halt
# Comment out this line in Vagrantfile
# config.disksize.size = '30GB'
# Go to `~/VirtualBox\ VMs` directory
$ cd ~/VirtualBox\ VMs
# Rename your VirtualBox machine to nearme_ubuntu_1604 (Optional)
$ vboxmanage modifyvm NearMe_default_xxxx --name nearme_ubuntu_1604
# Locate the VM and the HDD attached to its SATA/IDE Controller. In this instance we're assuming the VM is located in the default location
$ cd nearme_ubuntu_1604
$ VBoxManage showvminfo nearme_ubuntu_1604 | grep ".vmdk"
IDE Controller (0, 0): /Users/hnq90/VirtualBox VMs/nearme_ubuntu_1604/packer-ubuntu-16.04-x86_64-virtualbox-vagrant-puppet-1465223024-disk1.vmdk (UUID: 3d05781e-de57-4b15-8f60-7b42b40ddab0)
# If VMDK disk found, clone it to VDI type so can it be resized
$ VBoxManage clonehd "packer-ubuntu-16.04-x86_64-virtualbox-vagrant-puppet-1465223024-disk1.vmdk" "clone-disk.vdi" --format vdi
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Clone medium created in format 'vdi'. UUID: c0f8f8a2-7137-402d-877f-6e9fa4974632
# Show how big the disk is currently
$ VBoxManage showhdinfo "clone-disk.vdi"
UUID: c0f8f8a2-7137-402d-877f-6e9fa4974632
Parent UUID: base
State: created
Type: normal (base)
Location: /Users/hnq90/VirtualBox VMs/nearme_ubuntu_1604/clone-disk.vdi
Storage format: vdi
Format variant: dynamic default
Capacity: 20480 MBytes
Size on disk: 2813 MBytes
Encryption: disabled
# Resize the cloned disk to give it more space
$ VBoxManage modifyhd "clone-disk.vdi" --resize 30720 # 30 GB
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
# Re-show how big the disk is after resizing
$ VBoxManage showhdinfo "clone-disk.vdi"
UUID: c0f8f8a2-7137-402d-877f-6e9fa4974632
Parent UUID: base
State: created
Type: normal (base)
Location: /Users/hnq90/VirtualBox VMs/nearme_ubuntu_1604/clone-disk.vdi
Storage format: vdi
Format variant: dynamic default
Capacity: 30720 MBytes # => 20GB to 30GB
Size on disk: 2813 MBytes
Encryption: disabled
# Find out the name of the Storage Controller to attach the newly resized disk to
$ VBoxManage showvminfo nearme_ubuntu_1604 | grep "Storage"
Storage Controller Name (0): IDE Controller
Storage Controller Type (0): PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0): 2
Storage Controller Port Count (0): 2
Storage Controller Bootable (0): on
# Attach the newly resized disk to the Storage Controller of the Virtual Machine
$ VBoxManage storageattach nearme_ubuntu_1604 --storagectl "IDE Controller" --port 0 --device 0 --type hdd --medium clone-disk.vdi- Download gparted-live-1.0.0-3-i686.iso in ISO format and mount it as Live CD in Storage Devices from VirtualBox interface.
- Start the
nearme_ubuntu_1604VM in VirtualBox interface.
- Boot into the GParted Live CD by pressing F12 and select CD-ROM from Boot menu.
- Right click on
/dev/sda2and choose Resize/Move. Set Free space following to0and click Resize/Move button.
- Click on Apply All Operations to resize
/dev/sda2.
- Right click on
/dev/sda5and choose Resize/Move. Set Free space following to0and click Resize/Move button.
- Click on Apply All Operations to resize
/dev/sda5.
-
Shutdown the VM after above step done.
-
Remove GParted Live CD from Storage Devices.
- Start the Vagrant machine and login to
rootuser:
$ cd ~/Projects/NearMe/nearme-center # NearMe project path
$ vagrant up
$ sudo su -
# ...- Find the logical volume which need to resize:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 597M 8.2M 589M 2% /run
/dev/mapper/localhost--vg-root 19G 3.0G 15G 17% / # => Use this file system
tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 472M 53M 395M 12% /boot
tmpfs 597M 0 597M 0% /run/user/1000
vagrant 233G 207G 27G 89% /vagrant- Extend the logical volume to use 100% free space of the Volume Group size.
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/localhost--vg-root- Resize the file-system to use up the space made available in the Logical Volume.
resize2fs /dev/mapper/localhost--vg-root- Verfiy that there is now more space available.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 597M 8.2M 589M 2% /run
/dev/mapper/localhost--vg-root 29G 3.0G 25G 12% /
tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 472M 53M 395M 12% /boot
tmpfs 597M 0 597M 0% /run/user/1000
vagrant 233G 207G 27G 89% /vagrant- Restart VM to ensure all the services are running correctly.
$ exit
$ exit
$ vagrant reload
# ...- Turn off the Vagrant machine.
$ cd ~/Projects/NearMe/nearme-center # NearMe project path
$ vagrant halt
# ...- Remove the VMDK disk when all above steps are done.
$ cd ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/nearme_ubuntu_1604
$ rm -f packer-ubuntu-16.04-x86_64-virtualbox-vagrant-puppet-1465223024-disk1.vmdk
$ ls -la
total 5787680
drwx------ 6 hnq90 staff 192B Aug 5 18:33 .
drwx------ 4 hnq90 staff 128B Aug 5 17:46 ..
drwx------ 6 hnq90 staff 192B Aug 5 18:17 Logs
-rw------- 1 hnq90 staff 2.8G Aug 5 18:33 clone-disk.vdi
-rw------- 1 hnq90 staff 4.6K Aug 5 18:17 nearme_ubuntu_1604.vbox
-rw------- 1 hnq90 staff 4.6K Aug 5 18:17 nearme_ubuntu_1604.vbox-prev