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shrink, defrag, size not reduced

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I am using windows 2003 server as host and as guest. I have virtual growable disks splitted in 2 GB slices.

 

One vmdk-file has 25 GB of size. I have deleted files some files in the guest system. So I have released 5 GB of space.

 

Over the weekend there was running a scpript on the host  to reorganize the vmdk-files.

 

First I have used the following command to defrag the virtual disk:

 

vmware-vmdiskmanager - d disk1.vmdk

 

After that I want to shrink the virtual disk using this command:

 

vmware-vmdiskmanager -k disk1.vmdk

 

But unfortunatly the size is not reduced. What is wrong ?

Shoult I first shrink an then defrag ?

Are there any other options which I should activate ?

 

Thanks in advance

 

H. Keil


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