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Commands I used to zero out space on a virtual disk from the host without running the guest vm
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#Magic to zero out space on host without running guest
modprobe nbd max_part=16
qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 /home/cjcolvar/VirtualBox\ VMs/avalon-installer_default_1383930303/box-disk1.vdi
partprobe
vgchange -a y VolGroup
zerofree /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap
zerofree /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
vgchange -a n VolGroup
qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
#End magic
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