Hi Paul, seeing as you educate me all the time i thought id share a tip with you! you can open a command prompt on a folder in explorer by holding shift then right mouse click the folder you want to open, you will then see the option to open cmd. You can also open a cmd and drag and drop a folder to change the directory. Cheers for the fantastic videos
+bassjunk3 I had been doing the first tip, but never thought of the second (I had been dragging to Start, Run dialogue), nice, thank you, I appreciate your sharing, it's always nice to learn new things! There's more to Windows 10 command prompt these days too, more linux/ssh like, with right click and such, all goodness!
Beware folks, this video could actually screw up your ESXI. It did mine. I have a drive that is provisioned for 800GB and due to how this program works, it eats up all of the space. Well, this ate and ate and ate to where it crashed my system before it finished the job. So instead of doing maintenance to keep my rig optimal, I just blew it up...
I cannot reclaim space on my vmdk at all. Windows shows 50GB of 900GB space used. VMDK is 780GB. I cannot shrink it, frustrating, to say the least :-( SDelete hangs at 0% This video does not show the SDelete procedure only the vmfstools command
Thanks Paul this video helped me how to run vmkfstool command, we need to be in the folder, i was missing that so ended up getting an error 25 is resolved
Not sure what exact circumstance you're in, but generally yes. Did one of the steps in the video (or article TinkerTry.com/how-to-manually-free-up-vmfs-space-after-deleting-big-files-in-a-thin-provisioned-windows-vm) fail?
Hi Paul, seeing as you educate me all the time i thought id share a tip with you! you can open a command prompt on a folder in explorer by holding shift then right mouse click the folder you want to open, you will then see the option to open cmd. You can also open a cmd and drag and drop a folder to change the directory. Cheers for the fantastic videos
+bassjunk3 I had been doing the first tip, but never thought of the second (I had been dragging to Start, Run dialogue), nice, thank you, I appreciate your sharing, it's always nice to learn new things! There's more to Windows 10 command prompt these days too, more linux/ssh like, with right click and such, all goodness!
Beware folks, this video could actually screw up your ESXI. It did mine. I have a drive that is provisioned for 800GB and due to how this program works, it eats up all of the space. Well, this ate and ate and ate to where it crashed my system before it finished the job. So instead of doing maintenance to keep my rig optimal, I just blew it up...
I cannot reclaim space on my vmdk at all. Windows shows 50GB of 900GB space used. VMDK is 780GB. I cannot shrink it, frustrating, to say the least :-(
SDelete hangs at 0%
This video does not show the SDelete procedure only the vmfstools command
Thanks Paul this video helped me how to run vmkfstool command, we need to be in the folder, i was missing that so ended up getting an error 25 is resolved
Works perfectly, thanks.
Can i use Sdelete for mounted drives? I have a mounted drive within one of the local drives on a VM
Not sure what exact circumstance you're in, but generally yes. Did one of the steps in the video (or article TinkerTry.com/how-to-manually-free-up-vmfs-space-after-deleting-big-files-in-a-thin-provisioned-windows-vm) fail?
Thanks for the video !
Followed this and Ive LOST space!