When do expanding disks expand?

I've filled up the initial 4GB of an expanding virtual disk and all processes now just report 'not enough space' or 'disk full'. When will the disk expand and is there a way to force it to do so?

XPSP2 guest on OSX host

 

4Gb is final size of disk. Expanding mean - the file which contains the disk is not a 4Gb size when it created, it start from few kilobytes and grow to 4Gb. But 4Gb is maximum size of disk.

 

Ok - that wasn't clear to me from the docs.

 

The docs mention a Virtual Disk tool. How can that be accessed to create/modify existing vdd's ?

 

This tool is unavailable for Mac OS now. You can copy your disk to linux/window and use ImageTool utility for do this.

 

while useful I'm sure, in this case, it's a problem considering that I'm use Parallels because I lack a Windows part to do this with

I'll figure something out

 

This tool is become as a part of official release and will be available soon.

 

Yes, I agree. Right or wrong, my impression was that the size I was picking would be the base size of the disk, not the Max size.

Not complaining. Just suggesting a wording change for the next revision.