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How to reduce the size of VMware disk
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My Ubuntu image VMware disk has grown to 5GB physical file size. It's a dynamically growing disk with the maximum capacity of 8GB. I cleaned some stuff inside Linux distro and now inside it occupies 3GB. Obviously the physical file size didn't shrink back automatically. Is there a way (if possible …
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There are three steps: Defragment (no need to un/remount anything) Ignore any errors. Some files like symlinks and device files can't be defragmented. Zero-fill all unused space so VMware knows it's indeed unused: Run the shrink operation:
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