Re: How to reduce/shrink the size of a VirtualPC disk image (reclaim unused space)

From: Unseelie (unseelie_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: 11 Oct 2004 12:07:21 -0700

If I remember the steps I went through when I did it, yes. It's been
awhile though. If I had to guess, they temporarily clone the drive
image and do the work on that (so as to avoid data loss), so until the
process is done, you need a lot of drive space.

user@domain.invalid wrote in message news:<Ow1lB0YrEHA.2856@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> Unseelie wrote:
>
> > That first link should work, although you will need, temporarily,
> > twice the amount of free drive space as the current size of the VPC
> > image.
> >
>
> With this 16GB/20GB image (from within Windows/from OS X), do you mean I
> would need 40GB of free disk space (I only had 30GB)?

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