Good Morning,
I have Mint 8 installed with Mint4Win (updated from Mint 7) it has been working flawlessly for several months. I am now getting a message that my HDD (the virtual Mint 7 one) is low on space. I installed it using the default setting for the HDD 8GB I think. Is there any way to increase the size without reinstalling? It just works so good that I don't want to take a chance of reinstalling and something screwing up. I have moved any pictures & music to a shared Windows folder but it is still low on space, any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ed
Virtual HDD size
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Virtual HDD size
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Re: Virtual HDD size
I've never used Wubi, but maybe this will be of some assistance -> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How%2 ... l%20disks?
Re: Virtual HDD size
If you're comfortable using the terminal, you can use dd and resize2fs to add space to your disk image
From a Linux Mint live cd, you can do something like:
From a Linux Mint live cd, you can do something like:
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# log in as root
sudo -i
mkdir -p /mnt/windows
# mount Windows partition
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdaX /mnt/windows
cd /mnt/windows/mint/disks
# back up root.disk just in case
cp root.disk root.disk.bak
# Add 2048MB (2GB) to root.disk (you can replace the 2048 with whatever you want)
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=2048 >> root.disk
# Extend the filesystem
resize2fs root.disk