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To Shrink and Clean the Virtual File System
Copy/Paste “Fill Zero” (root)
- The script “.doZERO.sh” is available at https://doit.vlsm.org/027.html#idx03
- Run (root)
$HOME/.doZERO.sh
VirtualBox On Linux Host
- vboxmanage modifymedium –compact
$ ls -al LFS-08-18-disk00*
-rw------- 1 rms46 rms46 3231711232 May 14 21:06 LFS-08-18-disk001.vdi
-rw------- 1 rms46 rms46 12700352512 May 14 21:06 LFS-08-18-disk002.vdi
$ vboxmanage modifymedium --compact LFS-08-18-disk001.vdi
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
$ vboxmanage modifymedium --compact LFS-08-18-disk002.vdi
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
$ ls -al LFS-08-18-disk00*
-rw------- 1 rms46 rms46 3101687808 May 10 08:40 LFS-08-26-disk001.vdi
-rw------- 1 rms46 rms46 5203034112 May 10 08:42 LFS-08-26-disk002.vdi
VirtualBox On Windows Host
- ‘\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe’ modifymedium –compact
Directory: C:\...\VirtualBox VMs\LFS-08-26-DEMO
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 5/14/2021 8:12 PM 3165650944 LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk001.vdi
-a---- 5/14/2021 8:12 PM 12700352512 LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk002.vdi
PS C:\...\LFS-08-26-DEMO> & 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe' modifymedium --compact .\LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk001.vdi
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
PS C:\...\LFS-08-26-DEMO> & 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe' modifymedium --compact .\LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk002.vdi
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Directory: C:\...\LFS-08-26-DEMO
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 5/14/2021 8:16 PM 3096444928 LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk001.vdi
-a---- 5/14/2021 8:17 PM 5032116224 LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk002.vdi