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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 04:29:15PM +0100, Maurice wrote:
> If  the VM's .vdi is a file stored in e.g. /home/user/.VirtualBox/VDI, 
> and /home has plenty of room to spare, why would I *have* to resize the 
> /home partition?  (Of course, *if* it was short of space, then I would.)
> 
>   (When you say "guest partition", I assume you mean the host partition 
> containing the guest VM .vdi files.)
> 
> Or am I simply misunderstanding the way you are trying to help us?! :-)

No, he means exactly what he said. You need to resize the partition
and file system where the guest OS resides (I.E. inside the vm) to take 
advantage of the
additional free space on the newly resized guest drive.

Greg


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