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* 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 | This works 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 | * 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 destructive operation it is not allowed. | ||
Even if you grow a disk in size you will have to adjust the partitions after the resize. | Even if you grow a disk in size you will have to adjust the partitions after the resize. | ||
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>=2TB 2TB | >=2TB 2TB | ||
This means that if you want to keep your Virtual Disks to be transportable via FAT32 that you probably should keep your disk sizes under 128GB. | |||
Note that NTFS or HFS has no such limitation, so choosing your maximum virtual disk size depends on need. | |||
=== External links === | === External links === | ||
* [http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1023856 Repairing a virtual disk in Fusion 3.1 and Workstation 7.1] | * [http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1023856 Repairing a virtual disk in Fusion 3.1 and Workstation 7.1] | ||
