Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2014, 18:04:31 schrieb Patrik Lundquist:
> On 28 December 2014 at 13:03, Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> >
> > BTW, I found that the Oracle blog didn“t work at all for me. I completed
> > a cycle of defrag, sdelete -c and VBoxManage compact, [...] and it
> > apparently did *nothing* to reduce the size of the file.
> 
> They've changed the argument to -z; sdelete -z.

Now how cute is that. Thank you. This did the trick:

martin@merkaba:~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks> VBoxManage modifyhd Winlala.vdi 
--compact
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
martin@merkaba:~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks> ls -lh
insgesamt 12G
-rw------- 1 martin martin 12G Dez 29 11:00 Winlala.vdi
martin@merkaba:~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks>

It has been 20 GiB before.

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