Shrinking OpenSuse 11.4

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone can help, I have an OpenSuse 11.4 virtual machine but the thick provisioned VMDK has been sized too big and I want to reduce it whilst still keeping it thick provisioned.

VMWare converter only shows me the option to do a disk-based copy whereas I want to resize the volumes using volume copy.

I've tried resizing the OS using gparted and using VMWare workstation vmware-vdiskmanager to resize the VMDK also but it just errors if you try to make it smaller.

Any ideas?

I've attached the diagnostic logs.

Thanks in advance.