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xExpanding disks

What happens when you  create an insane amount of HD space for the virtual hard drive., much more than that on the host? Given you can do this on expanding disks, because the "used space" is only filled as needed, does this mean regardless of what Windows says, you'll always run into the host's limitation ?

e.g  Windows 2012 server below |  120 Gig on boot disk  in VMWare Fusion|  5.74TB free on extended.

But on MacOS SSD is only 250Gig  capacity

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scott28tt
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The VMDK file(s) will increase in size over time, potentially filling up your MacOS volume.

While you’ve only got a small amount of data on that Windows partition, you might be better to move the data to another partition and to delete and recreate that massively over-provisioned disk/partition.


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