On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:14:20 +0200 "Erik P. Olsen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2018-08-21 at 03:01:22 Allan wrote: > > > å Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:18:05 +0200 > > "Erik P. Olsen" <[email protected]> skrev: > > > Unfortunately I have created too large a file to hold my virtual > > > Win10 system. I want to recover some of the surplus disk area from > > > the file. > > > > > > My host system is Fedora 28 and I thought I could export the > > > virtual machine, create a new and smaller file and import the VM > > > into this file. Is that doable or is there if possible a better > > > method? > > export and import doesn't change the VDI - it just copies it. > > That's exactly what I want to accomplish: copy the vdi file from a > large linux file to a smaller. And my problem with export is that I > don't see how I can specify where the output of the export process > goes. I want it to go to a usb stick not to a file on my home dir. export gives you a 1:1 copy of what you have. There are no option to make the new VDI of any new size. So what you should do is create a new VDI file with the size you want. Then in your Win VM, you need to clean up your partitions (defrag), and then shrink the partition, so it is of same or smaller size than the new VDI, so it can fit inside it. There are tools in Win to do this. After that I would use a Fedora VM (create one if you don't have one), and attach both the Win VDI and the new VDI to it, and boot Fedora. Then you can use dd to copy everything from Win VDI to new VDI. That shoul fix your problem. BTW you can move all your VDI's to wherever you want inside the Virtual disk manager (GUI). Allan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
