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Brian Milne

Brian Milne

SITE CONTENT MANAGER, EXPERTS EXCHANGE
Experts-Exchange.com is an IT knowledge sharing community that has more than 260,000 active experts and has answered more than 2.5 million tech-related questions. I’m the Site Content Manager in charge of Q&A, articles and blogs. A former Senior Writer and Web Editor for McClatchy Newspapers, I have a master’s in journalism from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where Experts Exchange is headquartered.

Contributions

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My Answers

Question:

Providing an ounce of prevention when I can’t get to a client’s laptops?

November 25, 2009 at 2:11 PM
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Answer:
I'm biased, but I use Experts Exchange Mobile to solve tech issues when my wi-fi goes down or get the blue screen of death. http://mobile.experts-exchange.com/
Question:

Resize a disk image used with VirtualBox in Ubuntu?

December 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM
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Answer:
Danny,

In hopes of breathing this challenge back to life with a few more suggestions, we posed your question to the Experts Exchange community.

Here's ccreamer_22's suggestion on www.Experts-Exchange.com:

"The only way I can find on how to do this with SP3 is with Acronis. SP2 and earlier you can use Ghost, diskpart or Partition Magic. You create a larger separate disk in virtual box. Then clone it over. Then shut down the VM and set the new disk as the primary disk.

Quote:
The VDI files reside on the host system and are seen by the guest systems as hard disks of a certain geometry. When creating an image, its size has to be specified which determines this fixed geometry. It is therefore not possible to change the size of the virtual hard disk later."

Here's the thread if you want to follow the conversation:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/viewQuestion.js...