Feb 03, 2010 fatVM is a reliable, robust, and safe, 1-click solution for extending the C drive of your VMware Fusion virtual disk that is becoming full. It provides a simple, intuitive, interface and a reliable process that hides the technical complexity of extending a virtual disk. It is robust because it can extend virtual disks having snapshots and clones. Mar 07, 2016 How to Resize a Windows VirtualBox VM hosted on Mac OS X Eric Rosko. Expand Virtual Hard Disk - Duration: 2:13. Extend Ubuntu Disk Volume with GParted after Resizing Hard. May 21, 2013 Now, it’s time to create the Disk itself. In OS X, there are two primary methods of creating a RAM Disk: the Terminal or an app. Creating a RAM Disk via Terminal. Open the Terminal app from Applications Utilities and enter the following command: diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'RAM Disk' `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://XXXXX`.
Virtual Box does not offer a convenient way to expand a Windows or other virtual machine drive via the storage settings graphical interface.
Follow the steps below to expand your Virtual Box VM machine disk using vboxmanage Terminal commands.
Note: (If you try this command on VMDK disk, you will receive an error: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED VBoxManage: error: Resize medium operation for this format is not implemented yet!)
The new VDI image will have a new unique UUID. This is because Virtual Box will not accept a duplicate UUID when you add it this way.
Note: The newly created VDI image will be located inside: /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS
Open this location by right-clicking on the VirtualBox.app -> Show Package Contents and navigating to this location. Copy (right-click, copy) the image to your default Virtual Box images folder (Users/user/VirtualBox VM’s/ in our case)
After you copied the VDI, trash the other VDI image inside the Virtual Box app directory.
Iphoto for mac os x 10.5 8 download. Note: (If you try this command and receive an error: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED VBoxManage: error: Resize medium operation for this format is not implemented yet! It’s because you are specifying a size to reduce the size of your image. Remember, the command is not adding space but resizing the entire disk when you specify the space amount!)
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VDI and VMDK disk formats only matter when exporting and importing to other applications. Virtual Box can read both formats ok. If you wish to convert your VDI back to VMDK format, use command: sudovboxmanage clonehd “new-windows-10.vdi” “new-windows-10.vmdk” –format vmdk
Find your main Windows partition and right-click on it. Select Extend Volume… pictured below.
Follow the prompts to add the unallocated space you created to your Windows partition. The space will be presented immediately. And just like that, your Windows partition is increased!
Summary
Disk Utility got a facelift with the launch of OS X El Capitan. But this makeover didn’t go well for a handful of Mac users. Some of them find difficult to perform regular disk management activities on Apple hard disk drives including partitioning the disk, creating, resizing and deleting a partition.
Good News Arriving Soon
Very soon we will need to partition our Mac hard drive in order to make room for macOS Sierra installation which Apple announced this WWDC 2016 in San Francisco.
Tip
But before the time arrives to partition the Mac hard drive for macOS Sierra installation, it is equally necessary to backup the data on Mac startup disk drive to avoid losing any files during the upgrade or installation processes.
OS X El Capitan Partitioning
With the help of screenshots, I will be explaining some basic set of activities that are to be done while partition the OS X El Capitan drive. Alternatively, the same procedure will be explained with the help of a disk manager utility known as Stellar Partition Manager.
Background
I am using an old 40 GB external hard drive to create, resize and delete partition with Disk Utility and Stellar Partition Manager software.
** Resolving Partition Option Greyed Out issue
Solution: Select the ‘Generic USB Disk Media’ and the partition option will become active.
Partition Button is Now Active
Click the Partition button to start partitioning the external drive
Task 1) To create 3 Partitions of below sizes (using Disk Utility)
Step 1) Enter partition name and format i.e. ‘Partition A’ and ‘OS X Extended Journaled’
Step 2) Enter partition size i.e. 20 GB. Press Return and slider will automatically take 20 GB. Else drag the slider to occupy 20 GB of spaces for partition A.
Now select the 19.7 GB of the remaining hard drive spaces and click (+) plus sign. Name the 2 partitions as B and C.
Partition B and C Size
As shown above, the external hard drive is divided into 3 partitions of sizes 20GB, and two almost 10 Gb of partitions. Click Apply to save the changes.
Outcome Looks Good
Task 2) To resize the 3 partitions as below requirement (using Disk Utility)
Now, here the problems arrives
Unable to resize Mac partition
Entered 15 GB for Partition A and pressed Return. The ‘Partition A’ shrinks to 15 GB but created a new partition of 5 Gb, which is unused.
Now as per our second task, we need to create around 12 Gb for Partition B. Let’s see if Disk Utility allows us to do it perfectly.
Unfortunately, neither the mouse slider nor the Size box is accepting the Partition B to expand to ~ 12 Gb in size. The same issue is bothering ‘Partition C’ which is not expanding to ~13 Gb of size either through the partition slider or with the help of the size box.
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No Productivity
Since the partitioning as mentioned in Task 2 cannot be done with the help of Disk Utility on OS X El Capitan we will choose to achieve this task with the help of Stellar Partition Manager utility.
Stellar Partition Manager
Task 3) To resize the 3 partitions as below requirement (using Mac disk manager software)
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Witness the difference b/w Disk Utility and Stellar Partition Manager
Fortunately, Stellar Partition Manager utility collects all the available free spaces on the Mac hard drive or an external hard drive and uses it efficiently for resizing the Mac partitions.
Stellar Partition Manager
Now let’s achieve our tasks
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** Resize ‘Partition A’ to 15 GB by using the mouse to drag the edge and shrink the partition size from 20 GB to 15 GB
** Time to resize ‘Partition B’ to ~ 12 GB
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12 GB Resize Easily Done
** Time to resize / expand ‘Partition C’ to claim all available free spaces. In the above screenshot, you can see that Partition C is of size 8.3 Gb and only 1.74 GB of free spaces are available. Hence it will take all the free spaces but this external hard drive is only 40 in size so the final size of the Partition C will be 9.42 GB.
Mac Partition Resizing Done Successfully With Stellar Partition Manager
Click the Start button mounted on the top menu bar to apply the changes. Hence, we have achieved the partition-resizing task up to 90% with the help of Stellar Partition Manager utility. Concluding this article with: How to create bootable USB on Mac with Stellar Partition Manager application.
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