VirtualBox: extend partition

Question

I have virtualbox-4.1.0 with centos-5.6 installed in. Now I would like to extend the VM image, which I previously allocated for virtual machine installation, it was 8Gb, that\'s

Answer 1

I spent a long time googling and finally got it working for me. ( before I found this ) And I wanted a place to save my work

use vboxmanage to add space to the disk image

use gparted to resize so all space is used

use blivet-gui to create a new volume :

Below is commands I copied from terminal in fedora :

dnf install blivet-gui  
blivet-gui  
lvremove /dev/mapper/fedora00-00  
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/fedora00-root