On Thursday 28 February 2008 at 9:36 am, Flavio Vinicius penned
about "Re: [vbox-users] Size of VDI files"

> 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.
> 

Hi Flavio,

When I've done similar, I didn't reap huge amounts of blocks back.
Perhaps 10MB or so.

When I want to keep a dynamic VDI small, I use `TweakUI' to place my
temporary directory on a network drive which points back to my Host
O/S.  :)  This way my VM doesn't need to grow.

Cheers,
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Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc
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