out of disk space???

[alphadog00]

All of a sudden i ran out of disk space on my VM and then my laptop - here is my history

1. Converted Physical to VM and moved over to MBA - Physical has a 500GB HD, but only 100GB is used.

2. Converted VM was about 80gb in size

3. Vmware reclaimed space and VM was then about 60gb

4. All has been fine for about 4 days

5 At one point the VM was 5gb bigger and showed i could reclaim space, but I didn't.

6. Today - VM shutdown - out of space error

7 VM is now 196GB in size - filling up physical SSD on laptop

In the process now of copying it to external disk.

Can anyone tell me why this would triple in size without me doing anything - and especially why it is double the size of the original? 

How can I get it smaller, and how can i prevent this issue again?

VM is Win7

OSX Mavericks

I have never seen anything like this...

[alphadog00]

OK, got my VM backup - windows sees a 465GB C drive - and 52GB is used.

I guess i need to resize the HDD if possible, and then figure out why it grew 3x.

[alphadog00]

I am not sure what caused it grow so big, but doing some research it looks like whatever house keeping disk (maybe AV) could be to blame. I am going to try to resize my C drive within windows to slightly more then what i need so the disk should never grow this big again and pre-allocate.

[WoodyZ]

There is more then one reason that could have you in the situation you're in and before doing anything why not provide the support bundle and then we can analyze the situation based on the facts!

To help figure out what is what, the best way to provide comprehensive diagnostic information is to use the "Collect Support Information" command from the VMware Fusion (menu bar) > Help > Collect Support Information and then attach the .zip file (or .tgz file pre v6) it created on your Desktop to a reply post.

Note: Use the "Use advanced editor" link in the upper right corner of the normal reply window to bring up the Advanced Editor where you'll be able to attach files via the Choose File button or Browse button (depending on the Browser) above the Post Message button!

[alphadog00]

I collected the data, but looking at it, there is to much sensitive info for me to post to a forum. But knowing that my source physical is a 500gb drive - and I had not pre-allocated gives me a good pointer. This is also a corporate image with all the corp client tools and management stuff - so I am pretty sure some kind of system scan kicked off to cause a lot of disk activity.