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the above should have resolved the issue if not let me know
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Hi,<br />
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The situation: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host, with a debian Guest dynamically expanding Virtual Hard disk up to 128GB (deb.vhdx)<br />
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What I'm trying to do: Convert the deb.vhdx to a fixed disk with a size of 30GB and move it to a ssd drive. <br />
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I booted up with gparted and resized it but hyper v still sees the full size of 128. I tried converting to fix disk for the full amount and shrinking it via gparted and same thing. i also booted into the vm and ran this command sfill -fllz . and then shrank it via gparted and still hyper v still shows 128GB. <br />
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Is this possible to do with out imaging the partition to a new vhd?
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Hi,

The situation: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host, with a debian Guest dynamically expanding Virtual Hard disk up to 128GB (deb.vhdx)

What I'm trying to do: Convert the deb.vhdx to a fixed disk with a size of 30GB and move it to a ssd drive. 

I booted up with gparted and resized it but hyper v still sees the full size of 128. I tried converting to fix disk for the full amount and shrinking it via gparted and same thing. i also booted into the vm and ran this command sfill -fllz . and then shrank it via gparted and still hyper v still shows 128GB. 

Is this possible to do with out imaging the partition to a new vhd?

Change Vhdx Size from a dynamic expanding  to smaller fixed.

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.