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Dynamic VHDX is smaller than used space inside it
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$VHDDesc = @{ | |
Dynamic = @{ | |
Letter = 'Z' | |
Size = 100GB | |
Path = 'B:\Temp\Dynamic' | |
} | |
Fixed = @{ | |
Letter = 'Y' | |
Size = 70GB | |
} | |
} | |
New-VHD -Path ('{0}.vhdx' -f $VHDDesc.Dynamic.Path) -Dynamic -SizeBytes $VHDDesc.Dynamic.Size | |
$DiskNumber = (Mount-VHD -Path ('{0}.vhdx' -f $VHDDesc.Dynamic.Path) -Passthru).Number | |
Initialize-Disk -Number $DiskNumber -PartitionStyle GPT | |
New-Volume -DiskNumber $DiskNumber -FileSystem NTFS -DriveLetter $VHDDesc.Dynamic.Letter -FriendlyName DynamicVHDX | |
New-VHD -Path ('{0}:\Fixed.vhdx' -f $VHDDesc.Dynamic.Letter) -SizeBytes $VHDDesc.Fixed.Size -Fixed | |
$DiskNumber = (Mount-VHD -Path ('{0}:\Fixed.vhdx' -f $VHDDesc.Dynamic.Letter) -Passthru).Number | |
Initialize-Disk -Number $DiskNumber -PartitionStyle GPT | |
New-Volume -DiskNumber $DiskNumber -FileSystem NTFS -DriveLetter $VHDDesc.Fixed.Letter -FriendlyName StaticVHDX | |
$bytes = 1GB | |
[System.Security.Cryptography.RNGCryptoServiceProvider] $rng = New-Object System.Security.Cryptography.RNGCryptoServiceProvider | |
$rndbytes = New-Object byte[] $bytes | |
$rng.GetBytes($rndbytes) | |
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes(('{0}:\test.txt' -f $VHDDesc.Fixed.Letter), $rndbytes) | |
$rng.GetBytes($rndbytes) | |
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes(('{0}:\test2.txt' -f $VHDDesc.Fixed.Letter), $rndbytes) | |
'Files size: {0} GB' -f ((Get-Item Y:\*.txt | ForEach-Object { $_.Length } | Measure-Object -Sum).Sum / 1024 / 1024 / 1024); 'Fixed VHDX size (on volume {1}:): {0} GB' -f ((Get-Item ('{0}:\Fixed.vhdx' -f $VHDDesc.Dynamic.Letter)).Length / 1024 / 1024 / 1024), $VHDDesc.Dynamic.Letter; 'Dynamic VHDX size (supports volume {1}:): {0} GB' -f ((Get-Item ('{0}.vhdx' -f $VHDDesc.Dynamic.Path)).Length / 1024/1024/1024), $VHDDesc.Dynamic.Letter |
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