Written on June 25, 2012 at 1:42 am by

Shrink VirtualBox Image

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Although we assign 40/50gb hdd space to VM, not all of it is used.
After using VM for sometime, you may find vdi is constantly increasing & may need to shrink it.

To Shrink vdi size.
Linux

dd if=/dev/zero of=/testfile
rm -rf /testfile


Windows

sdelete -c

You can download sdelete from

Run following command to shrink image
Linux

VBoxManage modifyvdi hdd.vdi --compact

Windows

VBoxManage.exe  modifyvdi hdd.vdi --compact


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