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, -- 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
