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How to reduce the size of a Dynamically expanding virtual machine, I have a Windows Xp host machine and a Ubuntu 11.10 guest virtual machine whose maximum size is 8GB which is getting maxed out i dont want to resize the .vdi file , data in the virtual machine is about 3 GB but when we delete some files it does not free space in virtual machine.

Virtual box version 4.1.8 Windows Xp host Ubuntu 11.10 guest

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this isn't a programming related question, flagged to there: superuser.com – BiAiB Jan 19 at 10:11
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Inside the virtual machine:

  1. defragment
  2. zero the free space with http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443 sdelete

Outside the virtual machine

  1. VBoxManage modifyhd Disk.vdi --compact
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