Specifications

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4. When VMware Tools finishes wiping the selected disk partitions, you are
prompted to begin shrinking the disks.
Shrinking disks may take considerable time.
In some configurations, it is not possible to shrink virtual disks. If your virtual machine
uses such a configuration, the Shrink tab displays information explaining why you
cannot shrink your virtual disks. For example, you cannot shrink a virtual disk if:
• You preallocated disk space when you created the disk, which is the default
option for both typical and custom virtual machine creation paths.
• The virtual machine has a snapshot.
• The virtual machine contains physical (raw) disks.
• The virtual disk is not an independent disk in persistent mode. For more
information, see Independent Disks on page 164.
• The virtual disk is stored on a CD-ROM.