[ale] vmware decreasing hard disk size

[smcbrien at gmail.com (scott mcbrien)]

Narahari,

Before you resized the guest's disk though VMware, did you shrink the
Ubuntu machine's filesystem?  Machines tend to be cranky if you hack
off 1/2 of the space they think they should have in their filesystem.

-Scott

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
> Friends:
>
> I have a working Ubuntu 64 bit inside Guest in a Windoze7 host env.
>
> It was originally at 40gb all working fine.
>
> I have since then resized it to 18gb (dont need 40gb) and then I created
> another disk of 20 gb.
>
> I then used gparted and copied the parition from the 18gb to this new disk.
>
> I marked the new disk as bootable with the flags options of gparted. I
> removed the 18gb drive.
>
> When I connected the new drive by itself and restarted the machine, I am
> seeing blank screen.
>
> Any ideas would help.
>
> -Narahari
>
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