Your message dated Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:53:55 +0100
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and subject line Re: open-vm-tools: Shrinking disks on vCenter Server 4.1 does
not work
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regarding open-vm-tools: Shrinking disks on vCenter Server 4.1 does not work
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Package: open-vm-tools
Version: 1:8.4.2-261024-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a missing feature. Please adjust severity
accordingly.
Recently I moved/converted a virtual machine from an VMWare 2.0.2 server to
an vCenter Server 4.1. On the old server I could use the following command
to shrink the discs in case there was to much white space in them:
"vmware-toolbox-cmd disk shrink /". On the new server the command can be
called too and runs fine, but the disc size does not get reduced.
Thanks,
Hilmar
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages open-vm-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfuse2 2.8.4-1.1 Filesystem in USErspace library
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-10 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libicu44 4.4.2-2 International Components for Unico
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages open-vm-tools recommends:
ii ethtool 1:2.6.34-3 display or change Ethernet device
ii open-vm-source 1:8.4.2-261024-1 Source for VMware guest systems dr
ii zerofree 1.0.1-2 zero free blocks from ext2/3 file-
Versions of packages open-vm-tools suggests:
pn open-vm-toolbox <none> (no description available)
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf changed:
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi Hilmar,
ESX does not support disk shrinking. Nothing you can do on the tools side to
fix it.
You can use VMware Converter to do a similar thing, though.
--
Robert Bihlmeyer
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