So I checking on the VM that is downloading the Bitcoin Cash block chain and I realized I was running out of space so I shut down and resized the disk to 200 gb.
Then I realized I resized the disk in the WRONG VM.....the Xubuntu 16.04.4 vm that was running four nodes WHILE it was running.
I did not know I could do that, so I installed gparted in that vm.
So now it displayed a ~120 gb root partition then a ~4 gb swap and to the right of that an unpartitioned 80 gigs.
So I turned the swap off, next I created a new 4098 mb swap partition at the far right, next I deleted the original swap partition then resized the root partition the additional 80 gigs that was unused, then turned the swap on with the new swap partition.
Then I clicked apply in gparted.
And............. It seemed to work. LOL
Now to reboot the vm.
Slow to boot......seems to have a 90 second delay now and displays this:
"a start job started by dev-disk-by"
So I had the edit the fstab file and change the uuid of the swap to the new swap partition uuid.
It works!!
I would have never guessed I would be able to do that on the fly with programs running in the vm.
Talk about living dangerously.