Re: Change capacity of hard disk image

Unseelie,
Logical Partitions within a VHD work exactly like you would expect them to on a physical disk. You can have n partitions of FAT32, NTFS, whatever. You are also not obligated to consume the whole virtual disk capacity with a logical paritition.

My point with logical parititions is it should be possible to grow and shrink them which achieves the same goal Nick desires without moving the paritition to a new virtual disk.

Since the VHD capacity is 'virtual' and dynamic, there is no 'wasted space' in shrinking a logical paritition with a dynamically expanding disk.

Richard

Unseelie wrote: 
If this is a VM that shipped with Virtual PC, it's FAT32, not NTFS,
though I doubt that makes much of a difference.

I've no experience with what happens if you attempt to partition a disk
image with a second logical partition, as I've never tried it.

.

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