The VBoxManage modifyvdi compact feature did not alter in any way the size of the vdi file. I believe that the problem is of data remanence like Michael pointed out.
Maybe a clean up of the residual data from inside the VM and afterwards a compact might do the trick. The problem is that I do not know any way of cleaning up residual data. If anyone knows any tools to do such, please help. ps: I have found a number of secure erasing tools, but from my understanding these do not clean up the residual data, but makes it unrecoverable by re-writting. On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Flavio Vinicius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the help, i will try the use of the VBoxManage modifyvdi > compact feature, unfortunately i cannot do this at the moment. I will reply > latter with the results. > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Pablo Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Wednesday 27 February 2008 at 12:12 pm, Hugh Shang penned > > about "Re: [vbox-users] Size of VDI files" > > > > > This kind of issue can be solved in VMware easily if you've > > > installed the vmware-tools. > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm not it's an issue given the context of the VDI: dynamically > > growing. You _do_ have the disk space for it eh? <g> > > > > You can use `VBoxManage modifyvdi' to de-allocate file blocks with > > zeroes. > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc > > Ph: 819.459.1926 Toll free: 888.459.1926 > > Fax: 603.720.7723 (US) Text Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vbox-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > > > > > -- > []s > Flavio
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