I've always used "eraser" (http://eraser.heidi.ie/) to do the same thing. I zero out all the space on a VM and turned it into a sparse file so that it takes up hardly any space. I've even been known to put a VM that is bigger than the entire hosts hard drive using the same technique. Sounds like a bad idea, but I was tending to run the VM in immutable mode, so the VMs HD didn't get any bigger and was never in any danger of filling up the hosts hard drive, but it allowed me to have a generic VM that I could use as writable on some systems and that would leave me enough space to install software if I needed to.

Brian Cluff

On 01/31/2013 07:47 PM, Stephen wrote:
They might be talking about sdelete. I use it when prepping and
condensing windows vm's for making templates or condensing/shrinking.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx

On Jan 31, 2013 7:44 PM, "Michael Havens" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    yeah.... I googled it and could only find 'disk cleanup' so I
    figured that is what was meant.
    :-)~MIKE~(-:


    On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Stephen <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        Disk tools cleanup or you talking that purging the deleted files
        and free space?

        On Jan 31, 2013 3:52 PM, "Michael Havens" <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

            wait a second...... what is 'disk clean'?
            :-)~MIKE~(-:


            On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Michael Havens
            <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

                already did.
                :-)~MIKE~(-:


                On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Dazed_75
                <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

                    We will look for her.  If she wants to dual-boot
                    with Windows, ask her to disk clean and defrag
                    Windows before Saturday.

                    On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Michael Havens
                    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

                        A woman I know in Mesa is coming to get linux
                        put on her computer on the second. She is even
                        bringing her ex-boyfriend. Her name is Angie.
                        :-)~MIKE~(-:

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