[Bio-linux-list] How to expand the storage capacity of Bio-Linux

[Tony Travis]

On 29/03/17 09:00, 李国卫 wrote:
> Dear Tony,
> 
> I think I have got another problem right now. The default harddrive
> storage capacity is about 100 GB for the Bio-Linux vmdk, I want to know
> how to expand it out of my work needed.
> Thanks for all the hard work you have done!

Hi, Guowei.

There isn't a simple way to expand the size of a virtual disk image,
because you also have to resize the filesystem it contains. However,
these links might help:

> https://mariusvw.com/2017/03/01/how-to-resizegrow-a-vmware-or-virtualbox-disk/
> https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004047

A simpler option is to create a new virtual disk and mount it as e.g.

  /work

This is what I do :-)

HTH,

  Tony.

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