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If you want to squish the
Submitted by John HP (not registered) on Wed, 2009-06-10 16:33.

If you want to squish the image size down in linux, you can convert the disk type to the same type after filling the free space with zeroes (as shown above). For example:

 vmware-vdiskmanager -r olddiskfile.vmdk -t 0 newdiskfile.vmdk

Seems to work better for me than the defrag util. Which doesn't seem to do much. 

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