Re: [open-vm-tools-discuss] vmware-toolbox Shrink partition on FreeBSD 7?

[Adar D. <ad...@vm...>]

> In FreeBSD 6 using the older vmware-tools (that don't run on
> FreeBSD 7), I could shrink partitions.
>
> I recently found the Open Virtual Machine Tools at:
> http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net
> <http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>
>
> Hurray for this project and hard work!

Glad you've found the open-vm-tools helpful.

> Question:
>
> Does Shrink work using the Open Virtual Machine Tools?
>
> If so, does anyone have it running in FreeBSD 7?

Partition shrinking should definitely work with the open-vm-tools just as well as with the regular VMware Tools. That said, our support for FreeBSD 7 guests is very new, and it's possible that shrinking is broken (maybe the default filesystem used in FreeBSD 7 is different than in FreeBSD 6 and it's one we don't recognize).

If you're familiar with C and UNIX programming, you could attach gdb to the toolbox and see what's going on. Otherwise, please file a bug so we can track the problem.