.::: Shrink Disk VMWare for Linux & Windows Virtual Machine :::.

 A. Shrink Disk Linux Virtual Machine

1. check before shrink
 

2. Shrink via Terminal

dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofile bs=1M
 
[root@teguhth ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofile bs=1M
dd: error writing 'zerofile': No space left on device
23452+0 records in
23451+0 records out
24590155776 bytes (25 GB, 23 GiB) copied, 180.894 s, 136 MB/s
[root@teguhth ~]#
 
3. shrink disk (vm linux) from host

vmware-vdiskmanager -k "D:\vm\oracledb\oracledb 10.19.vmdk"

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager -k "D:\vm\oracledb\oracledb 10.19.vmdk"
  Shrink: 100% done.
Shrink completed successfully.

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation>

4. check after shrink 

 B. Shink Windows Virtual Machine

 

 

1. check before shrink
 

2. Shrink via Terminal

C:\Users\Administrator>cd C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools>VMwareToolboxCmd.exe disk shrink C:\
Please disregard any warnings about disk space for the duration of shrink process.
Progress: 100 [===========>]

Disk shrinking complete.

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools>
 

3. process shrink on vm
 

4. check after shrink
 

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager -k "D:\vm\windowsdb\windowsdb 10.7.vmdk"
  Shrink: 100% done.
Shrink completed successfully.

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation>