On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:38:11 PM Reindl Harald wrote: > hi > > i notice two issues since a longer time on > VMware Workstation (host and guest fedora 16) > > * vmware-toolbox-cmd disk shrink /home > it prepares only the given mountpoint (zerofill) but it alaways > acts on ALL virtual disks like "vmware-vdiskmanager -k disk.vmdk" > would do what is useless on non-prepared disks and a problem if > one of them is really large and you did not like shrink this one
Yes, the command that is sent to hypervisor is basically "shrink all disks", it does not really know what device particular mount point resides on. > > * [root@testserver:/data]$ vmware-toolbox-cmd disk shrink / > Die Partition / kann nicht verkleinert werden > > means in english something like "this partition can not be shriked" > i can remember times where it was no problem to shrink the root-fs > > may it be that this issue has somehting to do with the braindead > mount-output on recent kernels in case of bin-mounts and that > the rootfs appears two times? > > rootfs rootfs 12G 4,9G > 6,9G 42% / /dev/sdg1 ext4 12G > 4,9G 6,9G 42% / Most likely. Thanks, Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
