I've already done the compacting. And I also did the deallocating and defrag of the disk inside Windows. I did it to free up the unused space and then I shrank the Windows partition in order to only have completely empty space on the part of the VD I want to shrink. Well I'll keep on searching for a suitable solution :-)
/Leslie 2015-10-28 14:36 GMT+01:00 Cliff Scott <flyer...@gmail.com>: > Leslie, > > I just remembered myself that —resize supports only the expansion and not > shrinkage of the allocated size. > > Have you considered just compacting the physical size on your disk? I’ve > used —compact successfully. It shrinks the physical size of the VDI on your > disk by deallocating those areas that are zero within your VDI. For XP I > had to run a utility within XP to zero unused areas before running the > —compact option. That may be needed with Win7 also. It’s explained in the > manual. > > I don’t know about the cloning process in VBox. Normally a clone is an > exact copy so it may want to copy everything including the allocated size. > You’ll just have to read the manual and see what it says. > > Sorry we weren’t able to solve your problem. > > Cliff > > On Oct 28, 2015, at 8:23 AM, Leslie Jensen <jensen.les...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > After reading up on the modifyhd command it's quite clear that shrink is > not supported. > > The --resize x option (where x is the desired new total space in > *megabytes*) allows you to change the capacity of an existing image; this > adjusts the *logical* size of a virtual disk without affecting the > physical size much.[39 > <https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#ftn.idp45859075839952>] This > currently works only for VDI and VHD formats, and only for the dynamically > allocated variants, and can only be used to expand (not shrink) the > capacity. For example, if you originally created a 10G disk which is now > full, you can use the --resize 15360 command to change the capacity to > 15G (15,360MB) without having to create a new image and copy all data from > within a virtual machine. Note however that this only changes the drive > capacity; you will typically next need to use a partition management tool > inside the guest to adjust the main partition to fill the drive. > > > So it seems like I'm stuck with my to large disks :-( > > > A scenario I'm thinking of is to create new smaller disks and try to clone > the older drive to the newly created. Do you know if such an operation is > supported? > /Leslie > > > > > 2015-10-28 13:11 GMT+01:00 Cliff Scott <flyer...@gmail.com>: > >> Which version of VBox are your using? >> >> VBox 5.0.4 specifies that —resize takes an argument in Megabytes. It >> looks like you are asking for 32.768 GB size. Is that what you really want? >> >> Box 5.0.4 seems to say that your command line: "VBoxManage modifyvdi >> Windows_7_Ultimate_64_bit.vdi --resize 32768” should work IF your VDI is >> dynamically allocated, but, as Christoph said, the preferred usage is to >> use modified. >> >> Since it is complaining about the format maybe your VDI is not >> dynamically allocated? >> >> Another thought, you said that you had already shrunk Win7 inside the >> VDI, maybe you really want to just compact the VDI on disk. >> >> Cliff >> >> On Oct 28, 2015, at 5:49 AM, Leslie Jensen <jensen.les...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Thanks for answering. >> >> It's actually now "modifymedium" which I also tried with the same result >> :-( >> >> I'm in the actual folder so there's no need for a path. >> >> >> Leslie >> >> >> >> 2015-10-28 11:27 GMT+01:00 Christoph Schmees <c...@gmx.net>: >> >>> Am 28.10.2015 um 10:11 schrieb Leslie Jensen: >>> > Hi. >>> > >>> > I've tried this: >>> > >>> > VBoxManage modifyvdi Windows_7_Ultimate_64_bit.vdi --resize 32768 >>> > >>> > And it returns a >>> > >>> > Progress state: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED >>> > VBoxManage: error: Resize medium operation for this format is not >>> > implemented yet! >>> > >>> >>> replace 'modifyvdi' (where did you get that from??) by 'modifyhd'. >>> And AFAIR you have to specify the complete path to the VDI file and >>> enclose it in "". >>> >>> hth, Christoph >>> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net > ?subject=unsubscribe > >
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