Secondary VDisk not counted as Used Space?


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Hi Guys,

 

I decided to change up the way I use unnassigned disks by no longer giving my VM the whole Portable Drive but rather assign a secondary Vdisk called "storage.img" and then formatting it in Windows so it can be used.

 

The remaining space in the drive has then been used as a share called "Portable", my question is... I assigned this storage.img a 1TB space but even though it shows 1.07TB in the details as below... it doesn't take up that space in the stats under unassigned devices? why is that? also this may cause issues in measuring how much space I have left on my portable share.

 

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2TB Drive only showing 659GB used?

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Storage IMG size shown here, as you can see... it's larger than used space?

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VM Assigned Vdisks 1 and 2 is storage.img

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Would appreciate help and any advice? This method has saved me from using 2 different 1TB USB slots... 

 

Thanks!

Edited by KidCastro
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13 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Vdisks are sparse files.

Thanks for your reply! How should I manage my disk usage efficiently when I can't see the true reflection of used space? Is there a point where it will give me a population, insufficient space when writing to unassigned drive?

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