{"id":1430,"date":"2016-04-20T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2016-04-20T15:16:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:16:39","slug":"convert-vmware-virtual-disk-from-auto-growth-to-preallocated-disk-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"Convert VMWare virtual disk from auto growth to preallocated disk space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sharepointmentalnotes.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/10\/convert-vmware-disk-from-auto-growth-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sharepointmentalnotes.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/10\/convert-vmware-disk-from-auto-growth-to.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my situation it was:<\/p>\n<p>vmware-vdiskmanager -r &#8220;E:\\VMs\\Windows 10 x64\\Windows 10 x64.vmdk&#8221; -t 2 &#8220;E:\\VMs\\Windows 10 x64\\New Drive\\Windows 10 x64.vmdk&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-t 2 (is preallocated virtual disk)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/sharepointmentalnotes.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/10\/convert-vmware-disk-from-auto-growth-to.html In my situation it was: vmware-vdiskmanager -r &#8220;E:\\VMs\\Windows 10 x64\\Windows 10 x64.vmdk&#8221; -t 2 &#8220;E:\\VMs\\Windows 10 x64\\New Drive\\Windows 10 x64.vmdk&#8221; -t 2 (is preallocated virtual disk)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,100],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-notes","tag-vmware","tag-vmware-workstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}