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Created page with "= Prerequisites (usually met in a VM) = * Windows partition to increase is the last one * VM disk is saved on a raw file = Assumption (change to match your environment) = ..."

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= Prerequisites (usually met in a VM) =

* Windows partition to increase is the last one
* VM disk is saved on a raw file

= Assumption (change to match your environment) =

* New raw file size is 40 GB

= Implementation =

* stop VM
* sparsely increase raw file size (bs*seek ~ new size)
dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/your/rawfile bs=1M count=1 seek=40960
* start VM
* login to windows VM
* start Computer/Management/Disk Manager
* right click on last partition before the new space
* select increase volume and allow it to use all space
* done :)

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