From: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>
To: Rodney Beede <mailinglist@rodneybeede.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Shrinking virtual disk with btrfs on it
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:34:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110121173419.GA5268@carfax.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimVGfP0UFgkTEtrqrc8RoPPoqgwu=x--KHa3Y9j@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:20:34AM -0700, Rodney Beede wrote:
> Any tools to go about zeroing about the free space on a btrfs file
> system so I can shrink the VMware vmdk virtual disk?
>
> I ran the VMware command, but the dynamic disk is still really big. I
> presume it is due to free space that isn't zeroed out.
One solution I've used before is to write a single very large file
full of zeroes, filling the filesystem, then delete it.
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mountpoint/foo.dat && rm /mountpoint/foo.dat
Hugo.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-21 17:20 Shrinking virtual disk with btrfs on it Rodney Beede
2011-01-21 17:34 ` Hugo Mills [this message]
2011-01-22 18:27 ` Rodney Beede
2011-01-21 19:43 ` David Pottage
2011-01-22 8:28 ` Tomasz Torcz
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