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Shrink Linux Guest OS vmdk
Submitted by Terry Wang (not registered) on Tue, 2009-04-07 05:24.

Actually the vmware-vdiskmanager -k option does not work for Linux guest OS images. It's really weird at first. However, after seeing the workaround. I understand.

Thank you very much guys for the tips.

 cat /dev/zero > zero.fill;sync;sleep 1;sync;rm -f zero.fill

Works like a charm!!!

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