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Partitioning and formatting the new driveĪll of the following commands are carried out as root Use the drop down on the right to select the new disk you created

The first disk in the list is selected.

Go back to the VM settings, select storage and select "Add Hard Disk" (To the far right of IDE Controller).

Open the Virtual Media Manger using Ctrl-D or File => Virtual Media Manager.

Here's a screenshot of the dialogs in VirtualBox: Note, you'll need to stop your VM to do this.

Adding the hard-disk to the virtual machineĪdd the disk to your VM through the route specific to your Virtualisation software in my case I'm using VirtualBox, but there will be a similar method for VMware, Parallels etc. Note: be very careful doing the following - it goes without saying following these instructions are at your own risk. In my case I decide to create a new hard-disk and mount that at /home. The method I used is just to add a second disk to the vm and mount that to free-up space.

I hit that problem just the other day and I needed to increase the size of my home dir on a Ubuntu Lucid LTS vm before I ran out of space. There comes a time where you set-up a VM and don't set the hard-disk size to be big enough for what you are going to do.