{"id":331,"date":"2012-12-23T10:07:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T10:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2012-12-23T16:10:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T16:10:38","slug":"shrinking-virtualbox-vdi-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Shrinking Virtualbox VDI files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the info here is from <a href=\"http:\/\/garethtuckercrm.com\/2012\/07\/25\/shrinking-virtualbox-vdi-files\/#comment-1419\">here<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"here.\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1)Defrag the drive within windows. Using something like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.piriform.com\/defraggler\">Defraggler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2)Zero the free space using <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb897443\">SDelete<\/a>\u00a0command line is\u00a0\u00a0<strong>sdelete \u2013z C:\\<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3)Compress using VBox tools\u00a0<strong>VBoxManage modifyhd \u2013compact nameofimage.vdi<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the info here is from here\u00a0and here 1)Defrag the drive within windows. Using something like\u00a0Defraggler 2)Zero the free space using SDelete\u00a0command line is\u00a0\u00a0sdelete \u2013z C:\\ 3)Compress using VBox tools\u00a0VBoxManage modifyhd \u2013compact nameofimage.vdi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-virtualbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}