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layout: docs
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page_title: Vagrant Disk Usage
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description: Various Vagrant Disk examples
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---
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# Basic Usage
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Below are some very simple examples of how to use Vagrant Disks with the VirtualBox provider.
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## Basic Examples
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### Resizing your primary disk
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Sometimes, the primary disk for a guest is not large enough and you will need to
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add more space. To resize a disk, you can simply add a config like this below
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to expand the size of your guests drive:
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```ruby
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config.vm.disk :disk, size: "100GB", primary: true
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```
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Note: the `primary: true` is what tells Vagrant to expand the guests main drive.
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Without this option, Vagrant will instead attach a _new_ disk to the guest.
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For example, this Ubuntu guest will now come with 100GB of space, rather than the default:
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```ruby
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Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
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config.vm.define "hashicorp" do |h|
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h.vm.box = "hashicorp/bionic64"
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h.vm.provider :virtualbox
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h.vm.disk :disk, size: "100GB", primary: true
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end
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end
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```
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It should be noted that due to how VirtualBox functions, it is not possible to shrink
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the size of a disk.
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### Attaching new hard disks
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Vagrant can attach multiple disks to a guest using the VirtualBox provider. An example
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of attaching a single disk to a guest with 10 GB of storage can be found below:
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```ruby
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Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
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config.vm.define "hashicorp" do |h|
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h.vm.box = "hashicorp/bionic64"
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h.vm.provider :virtualbox
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h.vm.disk :disk, size: "10GB", name: "extra_storage"
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end
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end
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```
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Optionally, if you need to attach many disks, you can use Ruby to generate multiple
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disks for Vagrant to create and attach to your guest:
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```ruby
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Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
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config.vm.define "hashicorp" do |h|
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h.vm.box = "hashicorp/bionic64"
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h.vm.provider :virtualbox
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(0..3).each do |i|
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h.vm.disk :disk, size: "5GB", name: "disk-#{i}"
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end
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end
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end
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```
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Note: VirtualBox has a hard limit on the number of disks that can be attached
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to a given storage controller, which is defined by the controller type.
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Attempting to configure more disks than are supported by the primary
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controller will result in a Vagrant error.
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### Attaching optical drives
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Vagrant can attach `.iso` files as optical drives using the VirtualBox provider.
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An example of attaching an optical drive to a guest can be found below:
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```ruby
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Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
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config.vm.define "hashicorp" do |h|
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h.vm.box = "hashicorp/bionic64"
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h.vm.provider :virtualbox
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h.vm.disk :dvd, name: "installer", file: "./installer.iso"
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end
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end
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```
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As with hard disks, configuring more disks than are supported by your VM's
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storage controller arrangement will result in a Vagrant error.
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### Removing Disks
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If you have removed a disk from your Vagrant config and wish for it to be
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detached from the guest, you will need to `vagrant reload` your guest to apply
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these changes. **NOTE:** Removing virtual hard disks created by Vagrant will
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also delete the medium from your hard drive.
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