Sparse virtual machine disk image resizing weirdness?
- by Matt H
I have a partitioned virtual machine disk image created by vmware.
What I want to do is resize that by 10GB.
The file size is showing as 64424509440. Or 60GB.
So I ran this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=./win7.img seek=146800640 count=0
It ran without errors and I can verify the new size is in fact
75161927680 bytes or 70GB.
This is where it gets a…