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• Vmware Linux Virtual Machine

My Ubuntu image VMware disk has grown to 5GB physical file size. It's a dynamically growing disk with the maximum capacity of 8GB. I cleaned some stuff inside Linux distro and now inside it occupies 3GB. Obviously the physical file size didn't shrink back automatically. Is there a way (if possible free of charge) to shrink this disk back to ~3GB?

I need this to fit the image on the DVD.

7 Answers

There are three steps:

1. Defragment (no need to un/remount anything)

   sudo e4defrag /

   Ignore any errors. Some files like symlinks and device files can't be defragmented.

2. Zero-fill all unused space so VMware knows it's indeed unused:

   dd if=/dev/zero of=wipefile bs=1M; sync; rm wipefile

3. Run the shrink operation:

   sudo vmware-toolbox-cmd disk shrinkonly

I've found the solution – you have to compact your hard drive:

Virtual Machine - Settings - General - Clean Up Virtual Machine

Vmware Linux Virtual Machine

Open VMware Toolbox in the guest (as root) and shrink the disk. (Documentation)

If you don't have VMware Tools, you can shrink the disk manually in two steps. First, clear the free space on the virtual disk using a tool like zerofree. Zerofree is available in Ubuntu, but since it requires the guest OS filesystem to be mounted read-only you may want to run it off a live CD. Parted Magic reportedly includes zerofree.

After zeroing the free space, open Virtual Machine Settings and compact the virtual disk.

Use

from the command prompt in your Ubuntu guest.

(Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS guest + Windows 10 Host + VMWare Workstation 12.1.1 )

VMWare harddisk resizing:

Expanding the dynamic virtual harddisk in VMWare is easy and does no longer require the command line tool vmware-vdiskmanager.exe located by default in C:Program FilesVMwareVMware Workstation .

For resizing use the following command (Open a command prompt by pressing WIN+R and enter cmd):'C:Program FilesVMwareVMware Workstationvmware-vdiskmanager.exe' -x NEWSIZE 'diskname.vmdk'

Procedure:

The following steps are:

• Download here
• Install
• Open
• Choose the partition, Click Resize/Move, Drag the handle to its full width
• Click Apply
• Agree to reboot
• During startup, do not press any key whatsoever
• Let the boot-up module perform its task
• Check that your Windows system partition size increased.

For a visual rundown of the steps and additional info, see here.

These steps worked perfectly for me:

1) Zero-fill unused space

2) Shrink disk with vmware toolbox

Tested on Ubuntu 16.04, VMware Workstation 12.1.0 Player, Windows 7 Host

Shrinking disks is possible on ESXi.

1. Find the large file and delete them. Topaz labs restyle license key.

   Kumpulan soal toeic dan kunci jawabannya. find / -type f -size +50M

2. Defragment (no need to un/remount anything). Ignore any errors. Some files like symlinks and device files can't be defragmented.

   sudo e4defrag /

3. Zero-fill all unused space so VMware knows it's indeed unused:

   dd if=/dev/zero of=wipefile bs=1M; sync; rm wipefile

4. Run the shrink operation: If 4 fails, proceed to 5.

   sudo vmware-toolbox-cmd disk shrinkonly

5. Reboot the linux system with try option and edit the partition table with gparted. Shrink the root file system and delete & move swap partition near to root partition.

6. SSH to ESXi, and issue this command:

   vmkfstools -K /vmfs/volumes/volumename/vmname/vmname.vmdk

7. We need to edit the *.vmdk file. After the letters RW, defines the size of the VMware virtual disk (VMDK)

   *40 GB = 40 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 / 512 = 83886080*

8. Migrate it to another datastore to reflect the new size.

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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and trying to expand size allocated to Linux virtual machine, but I'm not able to find vmware-vdiskmanager or any package that installs vmware-vdiskmanager. Can anyone please tell me how to install vmware-vdiskmanager or link to download it..?

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As far I as know vmware-vdiskmanager is a utility that comes bundled with VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation.

I found a 32bits version 1023856-vdiskmanager-linux.7.0.1.zip available for download here on kb.vmware.com (direct link from the Attachments section).

You can use the 32bit version available for download here on kb.vmware.com from the Attachments section.

• Download and unzip the 1023856-vdiskmanager-linux-7.0.1.zip file
• Expand the compressed file, and rename it to vmware-vdiskmanager
• Copy the vmware-vdiskmanager file to /usr/bin/
• give it executable rights

this will automate the installation:

To use it run for example compress a vm with this command:

The disk manager download suggested by Sylvain is dependent on OpenSSL. If you don't have it installed you will get an error message as follows:

SSLLoadSharedLibrary: Failed to load library libeay32.dll

OpenSSL is available from here: http://www.openssl.org/community/binaries.html

Downloading and installing OpenSSL resolves this issue.

Note: I have realised that the OpenSSL dlls are present in the VMware Player installation directory. If the tool is copied into the VMware player directory and executed from there the installation of OpenSSL is unnecessary.

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