Every now and then I need to resize my VMWare Server disks.
The is the easiest and least troublesome way, from my experience, is to use GParted Live (Gnome Partition Editor)
Prep Work:
1. Download GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) Live (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/). It is an iso file that we will mount to our vm
2. Locate where your vmware-vdiskmanager.exe is. It would typically reside in the install folder, for example:
C:Program Files (x86)VMwareVMware Servervmware-vdiskmanager.exe
3. Note the path to your virtual disk (vmdk). For example:
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 20GB "C:Virtual MachinesSQL2005SP3
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise EditionWindows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk"
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