Am 30.03.2013 13:39, schrieb M. Fioretti:
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 13:41:20 PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> if you have a virtual machine with growable disks and delete a lot of
> data the disk will not get smaller, shrink the disk will not really work
>
> after write zeros to the free space in the guest you can successful
> shrink the virtual disk on the host system
ok, now I get what you meant, thanks.
And I also realize I forgot a part in my initial question: how to do
the same thing with the swap partition? Would this technique still
work or make the system unusable? (as I said, what I'm looking at is
how to clean a live, running system, hence the question)
i do not use any swap partition, not needed on machines with 16 GB RAM :-)