On Jan 4, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > On 2012-01-04 09:11, [email protected] wrote: >> In my GUB installation, my VirtualBox ran out of space and peetered out. >> So, I closed my VirtualBox down, resized the hard drive, and tried to boot >> again. > > You know, resizing the harddrive (i.e. partition) does not resize the > filesystem itself. > So your filesystem is still just as full as it was before. >> However, it cannot restart (some message about GNOME power something >> something) and I think it's because the disk space is full. It's not even >> recognizing my root password :-/ > Yes, that's a typical sign... > >> Does anyone know how to do delete files on a VBox from the outside so that I >> can free up space? I know this question is more appropriate for a VirtualBox >> forum, but I figured that one of you may know... > > There is a virtualbox-fuse file system, so you can mount a virtual harddrive > and then delete files there.... >> Alternatively, if that doesn't work, does anyone know how to recover files >> from a virtual hard drive? > I think you simply want to enlarge the file system to the full virtual > harddisk size, right? > There's that nice gparted live ISO image, from which you can boot your > virtual machine (download the iso (~100MB), set it as the virtual box's CD > drive, change boot order to boot from CD and run your virtualbox) and then > resize the file system to the full available space. > > I did exactly that with my WinXP virtual machine and it worked just fine.
Please disregard my previous e-mail - I answered my own questions. Rheinhold's suggestion worked like a charm. May his name be lauded in all the lands! Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
