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=== Peculiarities === | === Peculiarities === | ||
VMware vdisk manager throws a bogus error in all version from VMware Workstation 7 to Workstation 11, Fusion 3 to Fusion 7 | * VMware vdisk manager throws a bogus error in all version from VMware Workstation 7 to Workstation 11, Fusion 3 to Fusion 7 | ||
The error looks like: | The error looks like: | ||
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This has been fixed in Fusion 8 / Workstation 12.0 | This has been fixed in Fusion 8 / Workstation 12.0 | ||
Disk repair option -R was mostly broken from Workstation 8 to Workstation 11. | * Disk repair option -R was mostly broken from Workstation 8 to Workstation 11. | ||
This should also work much better since Fusion 8 / Workstation 12.0 | This should also work much better since Fusion 8 / Workstation 12.0 | ||
* You cannot reduce the capacity of a virtual disk. Eg. if you have defined a virtual disk of 10GB in size then you cannot change it to be 8GB in size. This is because any resizing the tool does is irregardless of the partition definitions, as this is potentially a desctructive operation it is not allowed. | |||
Even if you grow a disk in size you will have to adjust the partitions after the resize. | |||
You can shrink a disk if you have a non pre allocated disk, in this case it will wipe out the unused parts on your disk and give that space back to the host OS. | |||
=== Command line help === | === Command line help === | ||