03-31-2016, 09:40 AM
@ stop0x0000000a
Thanks for the link, An important point that seems to be missing is the fact of "shrinking/moving the actual Guest partitions.?
If you created a 50GB VM, and installed the Guest and used the 50GB in the install, maybe 10GB / , 5GB /home , and say 35GB /data, or just a single partition.
Then you will not be able to shrink the VM. The 1st thing you need to do is shrink/move the Guest partition(s) using GParted or something else if using Windows.
You need "unallocated" space in the VM disk(s), then you can shrink the VM disk(s).
To verify this I just did my old XP VM,
It consisted of 2 separate Guest drives(8 & 16GB) for a C: & D: totalling 24GB. I 1st resized them, left a few GB spare in each, now the VM(.vdi's) total 7GB.
I was very aggressive in my clean-up
Thanks for the link, An important point that seems to be missing is the fact of "shrinking/moving the actual Guest partitions.?
If you created a 50GB VM, and installed the Guest and used the 50GB in the install, maybe 10GB / , 5GB /home , and say 35GB /data, or just a single partition.
Then you will not be able to shrink the VM. The 1st thing you need to do is shrink/move the Guest partition(s) using GParted or something else if using Windows.
You need "unallocated" space in the VM disk(s), then you can shrink the VM disk(s).
To verify this I just did my old XP VM,
It consisted of 2 separate Guest drives(8 & 16GB) for a C: & D: totalling 24GB. I 1st resized them, left a few GB spare in each, now the VM(.vdi's) total 7GB.
I was very aggressive in my clean-up
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Linux Lite 3.0 Humming on a ASRock N3070 Mobo ~ btrfs RAID 10 Install on 4 Disks
Computers Early days:
ZX Spectrum(1982) , HP-150 MS-DOS(1983) , Amstrad CPC464(1984) , BBC Micro B+64(1985) , My First PC HP-Vectra(1987)