Hello,
We have a Windows Server 2016 which has a second virtual disk of 2TB. I wanted to give it more space, so I added another TB, Total 3TB.
Unfortunately in Windows Server, I cannot allocate the new space since the volume is an MBR partition. I know there are some tools to convert MBR to GPT without losing data.
I would like to undo the increase in the virtual disk. Can I just go back to the virtual machine configuration and change the value from 3TB to 2TB without losing any data?
For better understanding, I add two screenshots - Windows Server disk management or Vcenter VM configuration.
Thanks,
Edy
Hi,
I did a test on the fly. I created a 40 GB disk, copied some data and then added 10 GB. I reopened "Edit" and set the size to 40 GB. This is the result:
ARomeo
Thank you for the test. So it is unfortunately not possible to reduce the size.
Any other ideas?
You can cut off the added space with dd
How to use dd to work with VMDKs stored on VMFS | VM-Sickbay
Hi,
Okay Continuum's answer
continuum
ARomeo
> Okay Continuum's answer
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As an alternative to dd like was mentioned is you can use VMware converter, which is the safest way to shrink it.