[VBox-users] On disk shrinking

[Christian K. <li...@ne...>]

Hi,

I needed to shrink a VirtualBox VDI image to half its size and but I 
remembered that "shrinking"[0] is currently not possible. I managed to do 
it anyway by creating another disk, shrinking the filesystem, copying the 
filesystem, etc, but it's somewhat cumbersome.

Searching through the bug tracker I find a few tickets marked as 
"duplicate" without a reference to its master[1] or wrongly-marked 
duplicates[2] (.VHD != .VDI, or is it?), but nothing substantial turned 
up.

So, I guess my question is: is disk shrinking (for .VDI disks, as they 
seem to be the default) planned or will this never be implemented? Or is 
this too uncommon a use case that this wouldn't be worth the effort to 
implement?

Thanks,
Christian.

[0] https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifyvdi
[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3179
[2] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2966
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