Increase disk size guest os
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Unfortunately this isn't quite as easy as you would hope. You cannot resize a mounted disk in Linux. Probably the easiest way to do this is to download the gparted live CD .iso file and tell your Ubuntu VM to boot from that image as the CD Drive. Then you should be able to resize your existing hard drive partition. When gparted is finished shut down your VM and reset your VM boot order to boot from the Hard Drive again.
Here is an article that explains the process for VMWare:
http://data.agaric.com/increase-main-partition-size-ubuntu-within-vmware-fusion
Steps 1,3 and 6 are only things that should be different.
Step 1 - you have already done.
Step 3 - Use Configure... | Hardware | Boot Order to change the Boot Order and Hardware | CD/DVD 1 to point your CD to the downloaded .iso (also ensure that the Connected checkbox is checked, otherwise Parallels will ignore the CD drive during boot)
Step 6 - Reverse what you did in Step 3
You can download the gparted .iso from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/0.11.0-7/
Here is an article that explains the process for VMWare:
http://data.agaric.com/increase-main-partition-size-ubuntu-within-vmware-fusion
Steps 1,3 and 6 are only things that should be different.
Step 1 - you have already done.
Step 3 - Use Configure... | Hardware | Boot Order to change the Boot Order and Hardware | CD/DVD 1 to point your CD to the downloaded .iso (also ensure that the Connected checkbox is checked, otherwise Parallels will ignore the CD drive during boot)
Step 6 - Reverse what you did in Step 3
You can download the gparted .iso from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/0.11.0-7/
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Dishing Tech
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Could you use winclone perhaps? helped me expand bootcamp / parallels drive http://roaringapps.com/app:904
TimothyLegg
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GParted doesn't work after all. The bootable CD does not understand the video emulation. You are limited to command-line interface.
I also must flame a developer somewhere. They partitioned it in a very stupid way, poor practice to say the least. I'm sure Parallels and Ubuntu teams will gladly blame each other for this. The root partition is the one most likely to be resized, it should be the last partition. That way, you can simply resize using tune2fs. The partition that is the most probable for needing resizing should ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS be the last partition.
Well, time to reinstall. It didn't even ask me how I wanted Ubuntu Server to partition the disk, or choose a size greater than 64GB (just decided that for me, which is annoying as hell)
I also must flame a developer somewhere. They partitioned it in a very stupid way, poor practice to say the least. I'm sure Parallels and Ubuntu teams will gladly blame each other for this. The root partition is the one most likely to be resized, it should be the last partition. That way, you can simply resize using tune2fs. The partition that is the most probable for needing resizing should ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS be the last partition.
Well, time to reinstall. It didn't even ask me how I wanted Ubuntu Server to partition the disk, or choose a size greater than 64GB (just decided that for me, which is annoying as hell)
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Haus Interactive
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Everything needed is in this thread but in pieces.
JEarles post is a good start: http://data.agaric.com/increase-main-partition-size-ubuntu-within-vmware-fusion
...using TiloR's suggestion of using an old version of Gparted: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/0.11.0-7/
I found that once I was in GParted that I didn't have the swap partition described. Instead I had what looked like two disks: sda1 and sda2. I DELETED sda2 which created room to expand sda1 into that area and use all the space I created in my Parallels settings.
JEarles post is a good start: http://data.agaric.com/increase-main-partition-size-ubuntu-within-vmware-fusion
...using TiloR's suggestion of using an old version of Gparted: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/0.11.0-7/
I found that once I was in GParted that I didn't have the swap partition described. Instead I had what looked like two disks: sda1 and sda2. I DELETED sda2 which created room to expand sda1 into that area and use all the space I created in my Parallels settings.
Meng-Yuan Huang
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gparted works well!
However, gparted has no official live CD for arm64. For Parallels Apple M1 users, I have a workaround:
In Parallels config, create another hard disk. Then, you can install any arm64 Linux (e.g., Debian, Ubuntu) and light weight desktop (e.g., LXQt) on the new hard disk. Then, change boot order in Parallels config. Boot from the new disk, install gparted, and resizing the old hard disk!
However, gparted has no official live CD for arm64. For Parallels Apple M1 users, I have a workaround:
In Parallels config, create another hard disk. Then, you can install any arm64 Linux (e.g., Debian, Ubuntu) and light weight desktop (e.g., LXQt) on the new hard disk. Then, change boot order in Parallels config. Boot from the new disk, install gparted, and resizing the old hard disk!
Meng-Yuan Huang
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I found Fedora has aarch64 live CDs! (e.g., Fedora-Workstation-Live-aarch64-35-1.2.iso) It's unnecessary to use another hard disk to use gparted. After booting the Fedora live OS, one can install gparted from terminal and use it to resize hard disk.