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| author | breadcat | 2020-06-19 12:23:15 +0100 |
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| committer | breadcat | 2020-06-19 12:23:15 +0100 |
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diff --git a/content/posts/compacting-vdi-image.md b/content/posts/compacting-vdi-image.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bec8aad --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/compacting-vdi-image.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: "Compacting a VirtualBox VDI Image" +date: 2018-09-06T12:26:00 +tags: ["formats", "guides", "linux", "snippets", "software", "windows"] +--- + +Firstly, you'll need to install `zerofree` on your Linux image, then mount the root partition as a read only volume. This can be done via: + +``` +sudo apt-get install zerofree +sudo apt-get clean +sudo reboot +# interrupt grub boot and boot into recovery mode +mount -n -o remount,ro -t ext4 /dev/sda1 / +zerofree /dev/sda1 +shutdown -h now +``` + +And now on the Windows Host: +``` +"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" modifyvdi "VirtualBox VMs\server\server.vdi" compact +``` + +This should make the VirtualBox image more in line with the calculated size it should be.
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