Shrinking VirtualBox VDI Files
December 20, 2008 – 2:24 pm
If you’re like me and have several VirtualBox Windows virtual machines, you’ll probably find they gradually take up more and more space as time goes on. This is at least partly because the filesystem gets fragmented and old deleted files still take up space in the VirtualBox VDI file. If you’ve created the VDI as a dynamically expanding image, it will only take up as much space in your filesystem as the files inside it take up – but when those files are deleted it won’t shrink again. … Read more »