On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Ed Plese <e...@edplese.com> wrote:
> You can reclaim this space with the SDelete utility from Microsoft.
> With the -c option it will zero any free space on the volume.  For
> example:
>
> C:\>sdelete -c C:
>
> I've tested this with xVM and with compression enabled for the zvol,
> but it worked very well.
>
>
> Ed Plese
>
>

It seems the compression setting on the zvol is key here. Tried
without compression turned on, and the thin provisioned file grew to
its maximum size.
I'm re-running it on the same volume, this time with compression
turned on to see how it behaves next  :)



-- 
Brent Jones
br...@servuhome.net
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