Hi. There is a "bug" with this feature. It allows to expand disk beyond the phisical limits of the host disk.
Should i open a ticket or post this in the forum? On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Frank Mehnert wrote: > >> On Saturday 18 December 2010 12:36:10 Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> > as i recall reading (but i'm not sure where), vbox will allow the >> > disk image files to be resized, is that correct? but that useful >> > feature isn't mentioned in the intro to vbox installation in the User >> > Manual (pp. 17-18). it seems that that's an important enough feature >> > that it should be mentioned there. unless i'm simply misremembering. >> >> 4.0 Beta 4, user manual, section 8.19 (VBoxManage modifyhd), last >> paragraph (--resize parameter). > > i know it's mentioned in Chapter 8. i was suggesting that perhaps a > single sentence could be added way back in chapter 1 mentioning the > new resize feature because a lot of new users aren't going to make it > to chapter 8 to notice the cool, new resizing option before basing > their disk type decision based on what they read much earlier. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Lotusphere 2011 > Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how > to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment > to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
