Within the VM, Apple_Boot Recovery HD with all the extra partition space, so cannot complete resize

With the help of VMware Fusion Version 8.1.0 (3272237), I installed OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) via the recovery disc option. The default size of the drive was 40 GB, but I wanted 250 GB.

When the parameters arose during the virtual machine creation process, I changed the size of the disk of 250 GB. A message pops up saying that resizing would take place after the virtual machine has been restarted. Thus, creating the VM is finished, I rebooted the VM.

The virtual machine on my host shows operating system file size. Thus, the next step was to enter the guest OS and complete resize it using disk utility. However, I kept getting messages on the partition being too large.

Entered the Terminal on the operating system prompted and listed drives so I can get the name of the volume to resize to the command line. Found this:

list of $ diskutil

/ dev/disk0 (external, physical):

#: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 269,5 disk0

1: disk0s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

2: Apple_HFS ElCapitan_VM 42.6 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 225.5 GB disk0s3

Note the size of the Apple_Boot Recovery HD partition! This is supposed to be something like 650 MB, not GB225.5! (I hope my formatting remains, as I saw an option 'pre' or 'code' Editor < pre > and in the editor HTML didn't work.)

I've not retried the vm creation, since it is a lengthy process. No idea what might have happened? Or how this can be corrected without re-creating the virtual machine from scratch?

We have seen this issue, as well, and we reported it to the Apple... It looks like the storage of carrots merges horribly when a disc is "grown" and wrongly grows Recovery HD instead of the main partition.  I guess that a "growth hard disk" is something which cannot appear in a virtual machine, not on a Mac in the real world, it is perhaps not a scenario that Apple engineers had examined.

Looking through our internal notes on this question, we had an engineer suggests that the problem can be avoided first reducing the primary partition (in disk utility) before more and more to fill the available space.  I have not tried this out, and I don't know if it can help to recover once you are already in the situation you are in.  If it doesn't help out you immediately, you might want to give it a try in a fresh VM.

I hope this helps!

--

Darius

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