What is the /Scratch file and what is it used for 4.1

First I want to thank all the people in the community of VMware for all knowledge/help/tips and tricks, these forums provide. The help you provide has been invaluable for me a novice of VMware!

I studied for my VCP 4.1 and read a wealth of information for the review and sometimes met with the limited information about the partition /scratch. I searched everywhere for an answer or an explanation as to what this partition is for and if it is necessary, but there is nothing in the documentation for VMware 4.1 on it.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Navi

Rookie of VMware

Welcome to the communities.

It is used for the dumping of vm-support and upgrades or at least upgrades will fail unless I have create a. Installation of the USB/SD does not create one because there is no local disk in support. With USB / SD install you must manually create one usually on a data store.

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