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Comment: information added on disk resizing vs operating system

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This operation is needed, for example, to obtain more free space on a disk image that already contains data.(warning)

Notes:

  • It is not possible to add more free space dynamically. The

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  • virtual machine must be stopped before performing this operation.
  • Resizing a disk image requires the operating system running on the Charon virtual machine to be able to handle Dynamic Volume Expansion. Please refer to the documentation of your operating system version. If this is not supported, please create a new virtual disk then backup and restore the existing data.


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If a source disk image is larger than the target disk image, the extra data is lost. If the source disk image is smaller, it will be extended and padded with null bytes ('\0').

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