Resizing VirtualBox HDD

Original post from here https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=50661

Steps:

1. Resize the Virutalbox HDD VBoxManage modifyhd <absolute path to file> --resize <size in MB>>
2. Use GParted liveCD to resize the partition http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/