Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
#2966 closed defect (duplicate)
Error: Shrink hard disk operation is temporarily unavailable!
| Reported by: | kgardas | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | virtual disk | Version: | VirtualBox 2.1.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
Hello, when trying to compact Ubuntu 8.04 image in VirtualBox 2.1.0 running in Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08 I always get this error message:
karel@silence:/ufs0/vbox$ VBoxManage modifyhd /ufs0/vbox/ubuntu804.vdi compact VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.0 (C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Error: Shrink hard disk operation is temporarily unavailable!
What exactly does it mean? That I shall still keep trying, or that the feature is disabled in 2.1.0 release? I've never tried compacting of Ubuntu disks, but I remember to compact Windows NTFS based disks several times while using VBox 1.6.x.
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 15 years ago
comment:2 by , 15 years ago
That said, this is not a helpful error message ; there are more than one issues devoted to it already.
My suggestion is that it would have been better to create a ticket for this right from the start, and have the error message link to it, as well as being worded more clearly.
comment:4 by , 15 years ago
| Resolution: | → duplicate |
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| Status: | new → closed |
It appears in the source code that this in an unconditional error message.
273 #if 1 274 RTPrintf("Error: Shrink hard disk operation is temporarily unavailable!\n"); 275 return 1;It will probably re-enabled in a later release.