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...
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