VM volume resize

[jarrettj]

Hi,

I'm constantly running out of space on the VM that dinghy has created. Is there anyway to increase the volume size? When doing a df on that vm machine:

sudo df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                   896.1M    187.2M    708.9M  21% /
tmpfs                   497.8M      1.2M    496.6M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1                17.9G     17.1G         0 100% /mnt/sda1
cgroup                  497.8M         0    497.8M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1                17.9G     17.1G         0 100% /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker/plugins
/dev/sda1                17.9G     17.1G         0 100% /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker/aufs

My test environments won't work anymore. MySQL fails to come up because there's no space.

I tracked it down to the /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker/aufs/diff folder. Not sure what that is for. Might just try and delete it and see what happens! :)

Regards. JJ

[codekitchen]

Ha, deleting the aufs folder would definitely delete all your container data.

dinghy help create will show you the create options, which includes an option to change the virtual disk size. I know that you can also change the disk size on an already-created VM in the VirtualBox UI. Last time I checked, xhyve didn't have a way to change the disk size without re-creating.

[jarrettj]

Thanks man.

I made that mistake, but did a volume copy in the Virtualbox UI first. You see I don't want to redownload all the images I have. But it seems that is the only way. I tried the Virtualbox UI and it merely copied the the volume and the setting to allocate space dynamically is seemed to be ignored.

Will checkout your resizing tips, thanks @codekitchen.

JJ

[jarrettj]

Sometimes one just needs to know what to google! + stackoverflow :-D

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11659005/how-to-resize-a-virtualbox-vmdk-file

All fixed, thanks again.