How to assign more disk space to existing Ubuntu VM

This guide will show you how to resize your Ubuntu virtual machine to e.g. add more storage

Ever been in a situation where your virtual machine runs out of disk space? This quick guide will show you how to easily assign more disk space to an existing virtual machine (VM) and how to let the VM partition utilize the extra space. Let’s go.

The first step is to assign more disk space to your virtual Ubuntu machine from your host machine.

To do this, open the terminal on your host machine and run a command with the following syntax:

Next step is to allow the VM disk partition to utilize the added disk space. To do this, we’ll use the gparted application. Open your VM, open the terminal and download and install gparted by running this command:

Now, we’ll increase the disk space assigned to the VM aka we’ll resize the VM partition.

To do this, follow these steps:

You’re now done.

This was how to resize an existing virtual machine on Ubuntu. I hope you found the guide helpful.

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