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## vdi-file-compacting.md

      
        
          
            
              
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                How to compact VirtualBox's VDI file size?
              
          
        
      
        
    
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    Source: StackOverflow
1. Run defrag in the guest (Windows only)
2. Nullify free space:
With a Linux Guest run this:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero | pv | sudo dd of=/bigemptyfile bs=4096k
sudo rm -rf /bigemptyfile