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compact-vdi

compactvdi.sh is a simple compact script for VirtualBox VDI harddisk files. It runs in a Linux host a environment.

To successfully use the script, all unused harddisk sectors must be zeroed.

First remove all unnessessary files.

Linux guest run

dd if=/dev/zero of=0; rm 0

Windows guest (Tested on Windows 10 Guest)

sdelete.exe -z

From the Sysinternals Suite (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite). An example batch file for Windows is provided as "Cleanup.bat".