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. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html