I am running Centos 6.5 guest on Windows 7 Pro host (VirtualBox v4.3.6) - all 64 bit. I am trying to increase the size of Centos virtual disk (which is currently about 15G) to 90G. I did run the following Command
VBoxManage modifyhd "C:_Ten\Centos 6.5.vdi" --resize 92160
I observed expected output
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
and so far everything looks good.
Then I booted my Centos VM into GParted utility and this is where things start get confusing. What I see in GParted is two partitions /dev/sda1 500MiB, /dev/sda2 30GiB and unallocated space of 60 GiB. What /dev/dev1 and /dev/sda2 represent? Which one of them do I need to grow?
I actually tried growing both (separately and simultaneously) nothing helps. What I really need is to add space available under /data (where I have my MongoDB databases). Prior to HD resize exercise "df -h /data" command in Centos was showing that that directory is using 98% of 28G available.
After running VBoxManage and GParted nothing changed no matter which partition I grow.
Question 1: How come my physical disk size is only 15GB but df shows that I have used 28 is there some kind of compression going on in VBoxManage?
Question 2: how do I get more space available to "/" and thus respectively to "/data"?
Thank you