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markroe
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VMDK file resize

I have a vm (Suse 9.1) running under workstation 6 and i was wondering how i can resize this file as the majority of the disk space allocated is not being used

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What type of VMDK have you used? Pre-allocated, create on write, 2GB sparse?

vmware-vdiskmanager(.exe) is the tool you want (in the Workstation install directory), but the method varies dependant on disk type.

-k shrinks non pre-allocated disks.

-X resizes vmdks.

etc.

Some more example here: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_disk_manager_examples.html

Run vmware-vdiskmanager with no switches for a list of options.

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What type of VMDK have you used? Pre-allocated, create on write, 2GB sparse?

vmware-vdiskmanager(.exe) is the tool you want (in the Workstation install directory), but the method varies dependant on disk type.

-k shrinks non pre-allocated disks.

-X resizes vmdks.

etc.

Some more example here: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_disk_manager_examples.html

Run vmware-vdiskmanager with no switches for a list of options.

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fyi...this post has been moved to the VMware Workstation forum

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KevinG
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Use vmware-vdiskmanager to expand the virtual disk and use a third party utility to expand the guest OS partition.

If you want to make the Max size of the virtual disk smaller, you will need to use some type of disk imaging software like ghost and restore the image into a smaller virtual disk

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thanks

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