Comments on: Shrinking Linux VMware images

By: nobody

nobody — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:25:28 +0000

Thank you so much for this post! I searched for ages trying to find out why shrinking my VMWare image wasn’t making it any smaller, but zeroing out the empty space finally did the trick.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:51:25 +0000

Thanks Sachin. Not sure what happened there – I’ve corrected it now.

By: Sachin

Sachin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:16:54 +0000

The thread link is valid just remove the two extra ?? at the end.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:24:59 +0000

Thanks so much for mentioning the empty_file trick. (The thread to which you referred is no longer valid.) Performing this on my FC8 VM — in conjunction with Shrink — has resulted in a smaller “clean” image than was otherwise being achieved. So far, you’re the only person I’ve found to make mention of zeroing-out unused data on Linux…

By: David Currie

David Currie — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:02:49 +0000

Faster upload

I eventually gave up on the 9 hour upload but, with a little help from Adrian, tracked the problem down to my use of sftp. Having switched to ftp the speed shot up five-hundred fold from 200KB/s to 10MB/s bringing the upload time down to just over 10 minutes…