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Shrinking virtual disks on OSX VMWare fusion via CLI
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Shrink_OSX_VirtualDisk.sh
#!/bin/sh
# remove vm snapshots
# change your path /path_to_your/disc.vmdk
#
# source: http://snipurl.com/maggini_vmdisc_osx
cd '/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library'
# defrag
./vmware-vdiskmanager -d path_to_your/disc.vmdk
# shrink
./vmware-vdiskmanager -k path_to_your/disc.vmdk
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Zillionx commented Nov 2, 2015

Tested with OSX 10.11 El Capitan - VMware Fusion 8.0.2 and VM OS X 10.11.vmdk

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