Well you haven't told us your partitions layout, so I can't comment on that.
The 150GB of free space is just the total free space usable anywhere on the
disk, not necesseraly contiguous space, which is what matters at the VDI level.
So tell us your exact partition layout (size, FS type, purpose) and we can
comment further.
My bet is that the total usable space of all your partitions is (or has been in
the past) at least 452GB.
On 16 April 2017 16:30:21 CEST, Eric Robinson <eric.robin...@psmnv.com> wrote:
>> The size you see for the VDI file is what was ever written to the
>disk. So while Windows
>> see 150GB free, it has written at some point across 452GB worth of
>sectors.
>> VDI have a chunck size of 1MB, so any sector which hasn't been
>written yet would trigger
>> this if not within a 1MB chunck.
>
>Thanks for the feedback, but I am still puzzled. We have about 30 VMs,
>and only this one behaves this way. My understanding is that the
>physical image size grows to fit the logical image size, so if I create
>a 500 GB dynamic image, but the logical partition inside the VM is only
>100 GB, then the physical size should never exceed 100 GB. That's the
>way all of my other VMs behave.
>
>If I understand you correctly, then if I ran a script in the VM that
>writes random characters to a file and then deletes the file over and
>over, then the usage of the logical disk in the VM would stay the same,
>but the physical disk image on the host would continue to grow? That
>makes no sense to me.
>
>--
>Eric Robinson
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