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Latest revision as of 15:03, 14 April 2014
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 :)