document vmdk disk shrinking and expanding

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ID: 64
PHID: PHID-TASK-nwigwjc7azvag4ncgbmg
Author: JasonJAyalaP
Status at Migration Time: open
Priority at Migration Time: Normal

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https://forums.whonix.org/t/the-workstation-vmdk-gets-bigger-and-bigger

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JasonJAyalaP

2015-01-13 20:41:30 UTC

Patrick, do you mean describing how disk images dynamically expand, and how to shrink them? (If this involves converting the vmdk to vdi first, I don’t think this will be very popular).

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Patrick

2015-01-13 20:48:24 UTC

To shrink them. Indeed, converting to vdi beforehand would be required. But that seems a good idea in any case.