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TheVMEvolution
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Disk Usage dilemma?!!?

I am having a weird problem with my VMWare ESXi 4 server.

I have a VM set with 758GB disk space on thin provision. This VM Guest is CentOS 5.8 64 Bit.

When I select the VM Guest in the vSphere client, it shows 147.62 GB in used storage and not-shared storage.

However, when I go into the VM guest, and type "df -h" in the command line, it only shows 82.8GB used.

What could be causing this extra disk space that vSphere is detecting?

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TheVMEvolution
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No one can help me?

The disk space is slowly increasing in VMWare yet the usage remains the same on the guest itself...

I'm not taking any snapshots either.

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eeg3
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When you browse the datastore to that disk, what do you see inside the VM folder? Can you please post a listing?

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TheVMEvolution
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I'm seeing this:

http://i.imgur.com/ulvpA.png

The used storage shown by the vSphere client is below..:

http://i.imgur.com/8zge5.png

Yet on the VM guest, shows about 80 GB used:

http://i.imgur.com/9zmc9.png

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eeg3
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TheVMEvolution
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Unfortunately I only have one datastore and do not want to risk any downitme, so I don't think this is possible for me.

Is there another solution? Can I still overcommit if I do not thin provision in future VMs?

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Hi TheVMEvolution

Welcome to the communites

It seem to have a mistagged partition there.

You should probably correct this using the fdisk command, have to run very care fuly as it live server

"Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoe."
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TheVMEvolution
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How do I go about doing this?

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TheVMEvolution
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😕 this is still frustrating me.

If I ignore the used disk space shown used in vSphere, can i still use my actual free space?

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TheVMEvolution
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This is a growing problem.

86GB used on the guest, yet vSphere shows 154 GB now.

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TheVMEvolution
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Seriously I will paypal $50 to whoever can help me fix this...

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