Thursday, 24 April 2014

Shrink VMware Virtual Disk File (.vmdk)


To remove any unneeded files from the virtual machine to free space

yum clean

To fill the unused space with zeros

cat /dev/zero > zero.fill;sync;sleep 1;sync;rm -f zero.fill

poweroff

Start cmd

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player>vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -k "H:\Digit
ally_3.6\Edulinux_en-gb.vmdk"

  Shrink: 100% done.
Shrink completed successfully.

Ref:- http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-shrink-vmware-virtual-disk-files-vmdk

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