Hi, I needed to shrink a VirtualBox VDI image to half its size and but I remembered that "shrinking"[0] is currently not possible. I managed to do it anyway by creating another disk, shrinking the filesystem, copying the filesystem, etc, but it's somewhat cumbersome.
Searching through the bug tracker I find a few tickets marked as "duplicate" without a reference to its master[1] or wrongly-marked duplicates[2] (.VHD != .VDI, or is it?), but nothing substantial turned up. So, I guess my question is: is disk shrinking (for .VDI disks, as they seem to be the default) planned or will this never be implemented? Or is this too uncommon a use case that this wouldn't be worth the effort to implement? Thanks, Christian. [0] https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifyvdi [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3179 [2] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2966 -- BOFH excuse #99: SIMM crosstalk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
