I am seeing the same issue in Workstation ver 7.0.1 and 7.1 beta (Linux Host & Linux Guest).
Started vmware toolbox as root and removed all snapshots already.
But there is no partition listed inside vmware toolbox's shrink tab at all, to be selected for shrinking.
I used to be able to this in Workstation v 6.5.x but now in workstation 7.x.x I can not.
It is expected that if there were snapshot or linked clone then the shrink tab indicated that shrink is impossible, but it listed a blank tab after snapshots are deleted.
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I am puzzeled..
It is not just one VM, but all Linux guests face the same issue. Windows clients are OK.
u.y.
Does that apply?
From the manual:
"The Shrink tab of the VMware Tools control panel provides options for reclaiming unused space in a virtual disk. If your virtual machine cannot be shrunk, this tab displays information explaining why you cannot shrink your virtual disks."
AWo
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It is always just blank displayed nothing to explain why there is no partition to shrink.
EXT4 EXT3 REISERFS SWAP all not shown. Absolutely blank and I am login as root.
u.y.
I'm not sure if that is needed, but have you checked if all VMware Tools daemons are running and all modules are loaded?
Post the output of "ps | grep vm" and "lsmod | grep vm"
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One of the linux guest is now found to be able to shrink / and /home partition.
But most of the Linux guests can not.
from another linux guest the output is not exactly the same:
user123@ubuntu:~$ ps aux |grep vm
root 1158 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:17 0:00
root 1373 0.0 0.3 58676 2600 ? S 11:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/vmtoolsd
user123 1925 0.1 3.2 231624 21536 ? S 11:19 0:03 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/bin64/vmware-user-loader --blockFd 3
user123 4315 0.0 0.1 7620 980 pts/0 S+ 12:08 0:00 grep --color=auto vm
user123@ubuntu:~$ lsmod |grep vm
vmblock 12963 1
vmmemctl 8636 0
vmhgfs 56766 0
vmci 31115 1 vsock
vmxnet 18846 0
But this guest also showed the same symptom that there is no partition to shrink in vmware-toolbox
u.y.
Do you use LVM or are the disks preallocated (Thick provisioned)?
BTW, that's my outpiut with Workstatiopn 6.5:
awo@vm-awo-110:~> ps -e | grep vm
1340 ? 00:00:00 vmhgfs
2448 ? 00:00:00 vmware-guestd
3608 ? 00:00:07 vmware-user
awo@vm-awo-110:~> lsmod | grep vm
vmsync 10016 0
vmblock 20388 4
vmhgfs 47616 1
vmxnet 21376 0
vmci 36468 1 vsock
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I discovered the answer myself. :smileygrin:
VMware Tools ver 7.1.0 build-256557 still does not support EXT4 fs!
I added ext3 fs VMDK disk and it became visible in the shrink tab. :smileygrin:
The vmware-toolbox's shrink tab showed blank because the partitions are all EXT4 fs.
I have other Linux guests that are Reiserfs that will also show blank in the shrink tab, I think those older VMs got some even older versions of VMware-Toolbox installed, which don't support Reiserfs.
The short answer that I discovered now is that unless the version of running vmware-toolbox supports the fs of the partition it will not show within the shrink tab. If none of the partitions are of supported fs, then it shows blank.
I am suggesting to VMWARE.COM that in future all partitions detected should be shown, but with unshrinkable partitions greyed out, supported partition can be selected by a CHECKBOX. That way is clearer to the users and avoid this sort of confusions.
Thanks!
u.y.
I discovered the answer myself. :smileygrin:
VMware Tools ver 7.1.0 build-256557 still does not support EXT4 fs!
I added ext3 fs VMDK disk and it became visible in the shrink tab. :smileygrin:
The vmware-toolbox's shrink tab showed blank because the partitions are all EXT4 fs.
I have other Linux guests that are Reiserfs that will also show blank in the shrink tab, I think those older VMs got some even older versions of VMware-Toolbox installed, which don't support Reiserfs.
The short answer that I discovered now is that unless the version of running vmware-toolbox supports the fs of the partition it will not show within the shrink tab. If none of the partitions are of supported fs, then it shows blank.
I am suggesting to VMWARE.COM that in future all partitions detected should be shown, but with unshrinkable partitions greyed out, supported partition can be selected by a CHECKBOX. That way is clearer to the users and avoid this sort of confusions.
Thanks!
u.y.
Thanks!
u.y.
also see http://vizz.info/2010/09/vmware-tools-cant-shrink-edxubuntu-10-x-ext4-partitions/
regards
clive