Am 23.05.2012 00:40, schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: > 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
ok, but this is a little a miss-design in this case the mount-point param makes no sense and all disks should be perapred (zerofilled) becasue they will not get smaller without and you are wasting only IO for the full vmdk-sizes
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