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VirtualBox - how to free up unused VDI disk place?

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So if I have a dynamical storage in virtualbox guest, how can I reduce the VDI's size, if there are many unused place in the guest? So I mean I know the virtualbox guest in reallity is about ~3 GByte's large, but the VDI file is 10 GByte, because once a while the guest was that big. But it's now on…

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Take a look at vboxmanage modifyhd: it allows you to make an image more compact. With the --compact option, can be used to compact disk images, i.e. remove blocks that only contains zeroes. This will shrink a dynamically allocated image again; it wi…

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