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  Hi all

  I wonder if anyone can help. I started to experience a strange problem on one of my VM today.  I have a virtual machine running freenas.  The storage drives the actions of free storage to sit on are physical disks connected directly to the virtual machine and run normally, because of the way the works of freenas real HDD can be small enough and for the virtual machine, it's a prealloue virtual disk is 16 GB in size.  It is the only virtual machine sitting on a physical hard drive 256 GB. Today, I noticed a problem that the file for the virtual machine has become 240 GB in size, is probably not a normal behavior for a 16 GB VM.

  I checked snapshots which he had two auto protect snapshots which I deleted and disabled auto protect. This was reported to the size of the folder up to 182 GB.

  On the use of exploerer to view the folder it seems to be a large number of files, as shown below. Can someone explain if it should be there?  Also, how else remove them safely.

  Thanks in advance

  Thanks for the offer, but after a lot of interference and a virtual machine rebuild I managed to solve the problem.

  The solution was to set the 2 drives physical independent mode with persistent active. for some reason unknown to me this seems to prevent the creation of multiple disk files, it seems workstation creates them even when there are no snapshots.

  Time will tell us but seems to have solved the problems. Fingers crossed

  Thanks for all the help guys.

• Virtual disk problem

  Hello
  
  I am trying to install oracle rac on oel GR 11, 2 in vmware workstartion version 6.
  
  then when I created disc and up to two virtual machines, but when I try to start it is saying that "reunification is not supported for this machine.
  
  I searched in google, not now where I've found the right solution.
  
  I use the parameter to the virtual disk in a vm ware is:
  
  Disk.Locking = "false".
  diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = '0 '.
  diskLib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize = '0 '.
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  diskLib.dataCachePageSize = "4096".
  diskLib.maxUnsyncedWrites = '0 '.
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  SCSI1. Present = 'TRUE '.
  SCSI1.virtualDev = "free".
  SCSI1.sharedbus = "virtual".
  SCSI1:0. Present = 'TRUE '.
  SCSI1:0. FileName = "D:\VMWARE\PRACTICAL\RAC\STORAGE\DISK1.vmdk".
  SCSI1:0.mode = "independent-persistent."
  SCSI1:0. Shared = "TRUE".
  SCSI1:0. Redo = «»
  SCSI1:1.present = 'TRUE '.
  SCSI1:1.filename = "D:\VMWARE\PRACTICAL\RAC\STORAGE\DISK2.vmdk".
  SCSI1:1.mode = "independent-persistent."
  SCSI1:1.shared = 'TRUE '.
  SCSI1:1.redo = «»
  SCSI1:2.present = 'TRUE '.
  SCSI1:2.filename = "D:\VMWARE\PRACTICAL\RAC\STORAGE\DISK3.vmdk".
  SCSI1:2.mode = "independent-persistent."
  SCSI1:2.shared = 'TRUE '.
  SCSI1:2.redo = «»
  SCSI1:3.present = 'TRUE '.
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  SCSI1:3.mode = "independent-persistent."
  SCSI1:3.shared = 'TRUE '.
  SCSI1:3.redo = «»
  
  How to do this, please let me know.
  
  Thank you!
  
  Published by: 899329 on March 30, 2012 14:07

  I suggest you use VMware Server or Virtualbox for this. See below the list of items for the same,
  http://Oracle-base.com/articles/RAC/ArticlesRac.php#11gR2

  HTH
  Aman...

• new Pavilion dv5 laptop Virtual Disk Service restarts every minute

  New journal of events system dv5 - 1007ca is filled with entries saying the virtual disk Service stops, restarts 1 minute later, stops after 2 seconds, then resumes at new 1 minute later.   4 inputs each minute.

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  The deactivation of the service is not a solution because then you can't get in the Disk Manager, more I do not know what else.

  Everyone has noticed this?   or can suggest how to stop this behavior?

  Looks like it's all new dv5, not just mine.

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  Ok thank you.  Start in safe mode led me to the solution.

• Delete virtual disks now SATA CD ROM drive is not BOOTABLE: R510

  Im a novice admin with poor patience and I think I screwed up majorly on reinstalling OS 2008r2

  I thought I'd create a RAID by enabling it in BIOS and by removing all the virtual disks in the PERCs300 GUI.

  BIOS not installed no. found virtual disk. is now what I get, and when I try to boot from a DVD I get nothing.

  So please help out a NOOB who is now fearing a long and painful Sunday night at work...

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  Hello

  pachany.IT

  I thought I'd create a RAID by enabling it in BIOS and by removing all the virtual disks in the PERCs300 GUI.

  BIOS not installed no. found virtual disk. is now what I get, and when I try to boot from a DVD I get nothing.

  Mode SATA to ATA in the system BIOS. Who controls the RAID S100 controller that is part of the system chipset Board. It should not be set in RAID mode if you are using a S300 controller; Which is a version of the PCIe controller card.

  After getting set correctly, you should have an option when you start to get into the BIOS of the S300 controller. Press the combination of keys and enter the BIOS. Configure your RAID array and output.

  After that, you must be able to boot directly to the output of the DVD 2008R2 and complete the installation. If she doesn't always detect not storage then the SBUU start to complete the installation.

  If you need help more then provide more information. For example, if you have just installed this S300 then you maybe not it wired correctly. Learn more about your situation means I have to make less assumptions when it provides a response.

  Thank you

• Unable to connect to the virtual disk Service, Virtual Disk Manager Interface not registered

  I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on this laptop as a new installation about six months ago.  Since then, I don't think I ever ran diskmgmt.  Today, I joined a new external hard drive usb, it reported the drivers installed fine, but then the installation bombed at the beginning.  I went to verity, what had happened and has run diskmgmt.msc (as an administrator), but she came back with the message "Unable to connect to the virtual disk Service" and also a small OK msgbox appeared with the title "Virtual Disk Manager" and the "Interface not registered" message

  I disconnected the USB hard drive and tried again diskmgmt, but no change.

  I restarted in safe mode, tried diskmgmt, but no change.

  I ran sfc/scannow, but it has reported that it found no errors.

  I checked that the virtual disk service has been configured as a textbook in services.msc, and event viewer showed that when I ran diskmgmt he started VDS and then stopped VDS.

  I tried again, but still not like before.

  Is there some dll I can't regsrv32?

  Thank you

  Marc

  Hello

  I suggest you to return the items for the following responses from Microsoft, he says same issues with trying the troubleshooting steps and check if it helps.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-hardware/cant-start-disk-management-unable-to-connect-to/31898500-9d84-4CB5-9ba3-c1f42e3b1ace

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-hardware/problems-with-Vista-after-unplugging-by-external/093f1660-160F-478f-b81a-493e963ffd9a

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771775.aspx

  Note: it also applies to Windows 7.

  Hope the information is useful.

• Dell virtual disk are larger. You want to increase the size of the data store.

  Hello

  I started the implementation of a server ESXi 5.5 Update 1 this week. I didn't know Dell shipped the server with two virtual disks instead of one. I realized this _apres_ that I had already created the data store and setup a few virtual machines to the breast. I called Dell who sent specific instructions to increase the removal of the second (empty) virtual disk and add it to the main. In the end, I increased the single VD from 2 TB to 3 TB and I want to give the remaining space in my store of data.

  I tried to follow the article here that explains how to do this via the CLI.

  Well, he did not altogether. Fortunately, I was able to recover my datastore my setting start and end sectors to their original numbers. But I'm still left with this almost 1 TB of space that I can not attribute to the data store. After that I reread storage adapters in the client, the new Dell disk size resulted under measurement devices. Click on "increase...". ", generates the following error which led me on the way to the CLI method:

  Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryAvailableDisksForVmfs" to object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi '[myservername]' failed.

  I will paste my notes that I took everything by jobs. Things have exploded the rails when I put 4 partition size to the largest size. Any help, please?

  ---

  I use that as a guide:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & externalId = 2002461

  
  

  1 use start hardware device management tools to increase the capacity of additional disk to the device. For more information, commit your hardware provider.

  This has been done. The new size of the virtual disk is 2791,88 GB (TB 2,79188)

  
  

  2. open a console to the ESXi host.

  Pretty simple.

  
  

  3. get the DeviceID for the data store to change.

  ~ # vmkfstools Pei "/ vmfs/volumes/datastore1 / '.

  System file VMFS-5, 60 extending on 1 partition.

  File system label (if applicable): datastore1

  Mode: public

  Capacity 1971926859776 (blocks of files 1880576 * 1048576), 1042688245760 (994385 blocks) prevail, max size of the 69201586814976 file

  UUID: 534e5121 - 4450-19dc-f8bc1238e18a 260d

  Partitions split (on 'lvm'):

  NAA.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4

  
  

  A couple of things to note:

  a. the device for Datastore1 ID is: naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a

  b. the number of Partition on the disk is: 4 ' [...]: 4 "»

  c. the prefix, "naa," means "Network address authority" the number immediately after is a single logical unit number.

  4. Enter the amount of disk space available on the data store.

  ~ # df h

  Size of filesystem used available use % mounted on

  VMFS-5 1. 8T 865.4 G 971,1 G 47% / vmfs/volumes/datastore1

  
  

  5 team of the device identifier, to identify the existing partitions on the device by using the partedUtil command.

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0

  ~ #

  
  

  According to the table in article KB

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0 - primary #4, type 251 = 0xFB = VMFS, 13711360-3865468766 areas

  | |        |          |   |

  | |        |          |   \---attribut

  | |        |          \---type

  | |        \---se finishing sector

  | \---a starting from sector

  partition \---Numero

  
  

  Also note how the number of section start the old end sector number is + 1.

  
  

  6 identify the partitions that need to be resized and the size of the space to use.

  We want to resize partition 4. I don't really understand the last part of this sentence, however. Read more.

  
  

  7 the number of sector end you want for the target data store VMFS partitions. To use all out at the end of the disc space, remove 1 of the size of the disk in the areas as described in step 5 in order to get the last usable area.

  ESXi 5.x has a command to do this:

  ~ # partedUtil getUsableSectors "/ vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a".

  1 5854986239

  This means that we want 4 Partition of "naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a" to be:

  13711360 - 5854986239 (i.e. the end of the disc)

  
  

  8 resize the partition containing the target VMFS Datastore using the command partedUtil, specifying the original existing partition and the desired end sector:

  Using the above information, our command is:

  resize # partedUtil ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a ' 4 13711360 5854986239

  
  

  9 step 8, the partedUtil command can report the warning:

  He did not. Displacement.

  
  

  10. the tables of partitions have been adjusted, but the VMFS data within the partition store is always the same size. Now there is an empty space in the partition where the VMFS data store can be grown.

  
  

  11 launch this v vmkfstools command to perform a refresh for VMFS volumes.

  Fact.

  
  

  12 reach the VMFS Datastore in the new space using the command - growfs vmkfstools, specifying the partition containing the VMFS Datastore target twice.

  vmkfstools - growfs ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 ' ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 '.

  
  

  It did not work. I got an error:

  / vmfs/volumes # vmkfstools - growfs ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 ' /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d «»

  23001ad809071096d28a:4 ".

  Cannot get device head way /dev/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 information

  
  

  Also the partition was very different to what I asked:

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 1560018942 251 0

  
  

  I fixed it by running these commands:

  ~ # partedUtil resize ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a ' 4 13711360 3865468766

  ~ # vmkfstools v

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0

  Update:

  Since it was such a new machine, not in active production, we have safeguarded the VMs management off the ESXi host. Then flattened the virtual disk, recreated, and then created a store of data with the right size. (TPG this time, naturally.) We put the management of virtual machines on the data store. For Windows virtual machines, we have restored the using AppAssure. Everything is ok now.

  Need to add a new item to the list of punch: check what Dell has done the configuration of the virtual disks. :-)

• Convert virtual disk from IDE to SCSI now Server 2008 does not start

  Hi all

  I hope that one of you guys can solve my problem.

  I'm new to vmware and have managed to convert my 2008 physical server to a virtual server, but when this virtual disk has been set to IDE, I read that I need to use SCSI for better performance then I attributed a new virtual disk to my server and clone the IDE hard drive on the SCSI disk using EASEUS disk copy software.

  After I cloned the drive I removed the IDE hard disk but my server continues to display the BSOD 0x0000007b error (inaccessible boot volume). I can't start normally or through safe mode. If I try to use the recovery mode no drives appear.

  I use the LSI Logic SAS controller type and have tried the parallel LSI Logic Controller without result.

  Is it possible to fix my guest operating system, without having to reinstall?

  Thank you very much

  Robbie

  Hello

  Visit this link

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  Skal I gang med at konvertere / flytte mine nuvaerende til virtual diske, men jeg smarter det gar how LUN?

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• PowerCLI - looking for a command to connect/disconnect a virtual disk

  I have a virtual drive persistent indeendent that stores data.  I would like the opportunity to:

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  Since VMware vSphere PowerCLI is not for VMware Workstation, the forum you posted, I'll assume that you posted in the wrong forum.

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• SRM with virtual disks not replicated RDM Recovery Plan.

  We try to do a test of SRM with a Virtual Machine that has disks Virutal RDM attached, however these volumes are not replicated with RecoverPoint, they exist already on the side of DR, so basically we're already reproducing machine virtual and it's virtual disks, but these 3 RDM are outside it.  The reason for this is because they have massive volumes that had previously been replicated using another product before virtualize us and there is no need to replicate this info again because the volumes are never going to change.

  
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  It is done within the SRM, when you look at tab groups protection, we see a warning "not configured VMs: 1" because SRM / RecoverPoint believe that this virtual machine has volumes that are not replicated.

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  Here are the settings in the file for the RDM .vmx

  scsi0:4.filename = "server_3.vmdk".
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  scsi0:4.DeviceType = "scsi-disk" hard
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  scsi0:5.mode = "persistent".
  scsi0:5.ctkEnabled = "FALSE".
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  scsi0:5.present = 'TRUE '.
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  Hello

  You do not see the DR VM (usually it's called shadow or the space reserved VM), because currently the VM is not protected by SRM. You can't manually create.

  What you can do is run the Wizard "To configure Protection" for your virtual machine. One of the steps, "storage options" or something like this, allows you to select specific disks and mark as detached, allowing you to protect the computer with disks not replicated virtual.

  Michael.

• What is the right way to expand the virtual disk and then the OS partition?

  I have a Windows XP operating system in a virtual machine VMware.  I have

  you want to increase the size of the hard drive.  It currently has a 50 GB

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  50 GB to 100 GB in VMware virtual hard drive.  Then, can I use

  Windows disk management to increase the size of my partition of the

  side OS to use all the 100GB he sees now?  Or will

  corrupt my data or cause a problem as I really need to

  use a third party tool like EAUSUS inside Windows to extend Windows

  on the size of the virtual hard disk?

  In fact the way you describe, resize the virtual disk and then developing the partition are the way to go. But there are some things that you should be

  aware of.

  -If the VHD is on an IDE controller, you may not be able to resize the virtual disk. In this case use the converter. With the converter, you can resize the disk including the partition and - if desired - replace the IDE controller by a SCSI controller.

  -If you have only one partition under XP (that is, drive c :)) you cannot extend the partition with the diskmanager/diskpart. In this case, start your virtual machine from a CD/DVD Vista/Windows 7 in Repair Mode, open a command line and use "diskpart" from there to "extend" your partition.

  André

• Machines Windows does not start with 2 virtual disks different on 2 different

  Hello

  With the help of esx.3.5.0 update 3

  I have a problem where if I have a new VM to win 7 or Win 2008 r2 with or without vmtools.

  If I reboot it up to 10 times without having to install anything, whether he'll join the black windows loading screen, then restart and then restart and try to start in safe mode, it still does not start.  the machine rendering it useless.

  The single element only on these virtual machines is as follows.

  Windows machines have 2 different virtual disks 1 on a lun, VMFS (vmfs version 3.21 c:) and a RDM VMFS (d :))

  3 questions

  Is it a problem to have 2 different discs with 2 different stores file types?

  Would this questions we see above?

  Also, I thought that you might not? VMotion/clone? a virtual machine if she drives in 2 different places?

  I tested and I can vmotion live VM with records stored on 2 different LUN.

  Hello.

  With the help of esx.3.5.0 update 3

  I have a problem where if I have a new VM to win 7 or Win 2008 r2 with or without vmtools.

  If I reboot it up to 10 times without having to install anything, whether he'll join the black screen windows loading and then restart and then restart and try to start to > safe mode, it will not even start.  the machine rendering it useless.

  Windows 7 and 2008 R2 are not supported in this version.  5 update brings support for these two operating systems.  Go to U5, maybe it's the solution.

  3 questions

  Is it a problem to have 2 different discs with 2 different stores file types?

  Laughing out loud

  Would this questions we see above?

  It is unlikely.

  Also, I thought that you might not? VMotion/clone? a virtual machine if she drives in 2 different places?

  I tested and I can vmotion live VM with records stored on 2 different LUN.

  VMotion requires shared storage.  Local storage would be a problem if you tried to change hosts.

  also would it be a problem if 1 store was running 3.2.1 vmfs and other store runs 3.31 and a v on each disc is used for the VM 1?

  Lol this is explained in KB 1005325.

  Good luck!

• Reference Dell MD3000 virtual disk

  I have an environment to both nodes of ESX 4.0 and a shared storage (Dell MD3000, no iSCSI).

  On storage, I have 10 at 10K SAS drives.

  Virtual disk how I need to build? A two bigger or smaller?

  Thank you

  Max

  It is not a simple answer, because it depends on:

  • Good storage practices

  • Storage type and the type of disks

  • VM number, size and type of e/s

  • Max VM and e/s per LUN

  • Size Max LUN (less than 2 to - 512 b)

  In your case, with 10 discs and two nodes and storage running in active-passive mode, you can create 2 virtual disks.

  Create 2 different groups of RAID5 (also think about using 1 disk as a global hot spare) and in each virtual disk group build 1 (or more if the size is more than 2 TB - 512b).

  If you have a few VMS with high IO think also to use use 4 disks in RAID10 instead of RAID5 configuration.

  André

• Increase in the size of the virtual disk after update comments

  Hello

  I'll put up a basic using Fedora 11 virtual machine. I installed it with the installer in text mode to get a basic system with a small footprint. Once installation is complete, the size of the folder for the virtual machine is 564 MB. After you have installed a few programs (presto, nano) and run yum update, the size of the folder double almost to .97GB when the virtual machine is shut down. There is no snapshot on each machine. Disk settings are a single virtual disk of 8 GB, 2 GB split, not preallocated. The OS is Vista Business 32-bit. VMware Workstation is 6.5.3 Build 185404.

  What is all that extra space? I tried the yum and several options reset but no luck. I ran - x - m - max-depth = 1 / in computers with the following results:

  On the virtual machine without Update:

  0/dev

  10/var

  1/Media

  1/home

  1 / opt

  1/boot

  6 "/ bin"

  0/proc

  14/etc

  72/lib

  1 /srv

  0/sys

  310/usr

  1/MNT

  0 /selinux

  1 / lost + found

  11/sbin

  1/root

  1/tmp

  421.

  The virtual machine with updates:

  0/dev

  14/var

  1/Media

  1/home

  1 / opt

  1/boot

  6 "/ bin"

  0/proc

  15/etc

  126/lib

  1 /srv

  0/sys

  314/usr

  1/MNT

  0 /selinux

  1 / lost + found

  11/sbin

  1/root

  1/tmp

  484.

  From there, everything looks normal without any increase in the brightness of the use of the disc between the virtual machines.

  Here is what the comments files look like:

  Free update:

  555,483,136 Fedora11_TM - s001.vmdk

  33,882,112 Fedora11_TM - s002.vmdk

  393 216 Fedora11_TM - s003.vmdk

  2 424 832 Fedora11_TM - s004.vmdk

  65 536 Fedora11_TM - s005.vmdk

  8 684 Fedora11_TM.nvram

  607 Fedora11_TM.vmdk

  0 Fedora11_TM.vmsd

  2 099 Fedora11_TM.vmx

  266 Fedora11_TM.vmxf

  74 448 vmware - 0.log

  95 278 vmware - 1.log

  68 005 vmware.log

  With updates:

  1,001,127,936 Fedora11_TM - s001.vmdk

  47,710,208 Fedora11_TM - s002.vmdk

  393 216 Fedora11_TM - s003.vmdk

  2 818 048 Fedora11_TM - s004.vmdk

  65 536 Fedora11_TM - s005.vmdk

  8 684 Fedora11_TM.nvram

  607 Fedora11_TM.vmdk

  0 Fedora11_TM.vmsd

  2 099 Fedora11_TM.vmx

  266 Fedora11_TM.vmxf

  68 109 vmware - 0.log

  68 265 vmware - 1.log

  68 172 vmware - 2.log

  72 328 vmware.log

  This something that escapes me that would cause this increase in space?

  Thank you.

  When you don't have vmware tools installed vmware-vdiskmanager shrink is indeed very.

  You first need to wipe unused space with zeros.

  If DD \u003d/dev/zero of = 0bits bs = # 20971520 bs = 20 m rm 0bits

  The two commands will create a such wiperfile.

  You must run these commands for every single partition that you use.

  When done turn off the virtual machine and run vmware-vdiskmanager with option to shrink again.

  This time, it will be more efficient

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