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shoelesshunter

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From: USA

Registered: 2014-05-18

Posts: 289

virtualbox disk partitions

I am trying to install Arch as a virtualbox guest inside a Windows host. I have created a dynamically expanding 300G vdi. I booted Arch and attempted to make the partitions with fdisk.

"fdisk -l" lists /dev/sda as being 1M in size. When I attempt to make the boot partition, a partition of 1M is created and further partitions fail to be created; fdisk reports that there is no room on the disk.

the results are the same when I use gdisk or cfdisk.

starquake

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Registered: 2013-05-03

Posts: 13

Re: virtualbox disk partitions

I tried to reproduce your problem and when I create the disk and try to type 300GB instead of using the slider I get a really tiny harddisk. What does VirtualBox tell you about how big the disk is? Can you try using the slider while creating the harddisk?

shoelesshunter

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From: USA

Registered: 2014-05-18

Posts: 289

Re: virtualbox disk partitions

I just realized that my vdi was set to < 1G. embarrassed...