Infrastructure Software

Ordinarily I don't cross-post but in this case I was not sure which forum was more appropriate,
so I apologize in advance for any concerns.

I have posted a question in the VirtualBox Forum titled: "Expanding
Solaris_11_Express_Developer VM Disk". I am posting here as well as the issue is more
related to Solaris partitioning (though virtualbox may complicate the issue).

As background, I Am working to expand the usable disk space on my VirtualBox installation
of Solaris_11_Express_Developer from the 16 GiB that is available after importing the
appliance to 200 GiB. The first thing that I did was to create a .VDI file from the .VMDK
file as follows:

C:\Users\grace\VirtualBox VMs\Solaris_11_Express_Developer_VM_1>vboxmanage clone hd
Solaris_11_Express_Developer_VM-disk1.vmdk Solaris_11_Express_Developer_VM-disk1.vdi --format vdi
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Clone hard disk created in format 'vdi'. UUID: c212f18b-d214-4895-9b03-c8607f9e5493

Then I expanded the .VDI file:

C:\Users\grace\VirtualBox VMs\Solaris_11_Express_Developer_VM_1>vboxmanage modifyhd
Solaris_11_Express_Developer_VM-disk1.vdi --resize 200000
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%

Using settings/Storage I re-assigned the virtual disk using the .vdi rather than the
.vmdk. This seemed succesful.

Before the creating the larger VirtualBox disk, gparted showed the partitions as follows:

unallocated unallocated 7.84 Mib
/dev/dsk/c7t0d0p1 solaris 15.99 Gib

After expandig the VirtualBox disk, gparted shows:

unallocated unallocated 7.48 Mib
/dev/dsk/c7t0d0p1 solaris 15.99 Gib
unallocated unallocated 179.31 Gib

Now my question is how do I assign the unallocated 179.31 Gib to the available working space?
I assume this invloves appending it to the existing solaris 15.99 Gib.

I made a snapshot of the existing configuration. Can anyone help me with the next steps
required to accomplish my goal of having an enlarged Solaris_11_Express_Developer VM?

Thank You in advance for any help or suggestions that You may have to offer!

Regards,

73
-Grace
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Edited by: 920037 on Sep 9, 2012 9:34 AM