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Shrink Vagrant/VBox Disk
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| # in vbox gui for vagrant machine: | |
| sudo apt-get install zerofree | |
| # boot vm into recovery mode in vbox gui (hold down esc) | |
| df | |
| # (optional) mount -o remount,ro {disk eg. /dev/sda1} | |
| zerofree {disk} | |
| halt | |
| # on host machine after locating box .vmdk: | |
| VBoxManage clonehd {old box}.vmdk {new box}.vmdk --format vmdk | |
| # then switch the vbox vm storage to use the new vmdk file! | |
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