Whonix-Workstation-XFCE-16.0.5.3.Intel_AMD64.qcow2 and Whonix-Gateway-XFCE-16.0.5.3.Intel_AMD64.qcow2 are each 100 gigabytes

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why exactly are the images so big ? and are there any ways I can reduce their file sizes ?

[Patrick]

unzip over 100G

Hey when I unzip these Whonix KVM files, the file size just keeps growing indefinitely. It surpassed 100GB and just keeps going. How do I unzip these as a normal size?

[Patrick]

See above forum thread. Closing this duplicate forum thread.