To Shrink and Clean the Virtual File System

Copy/Paste “Fill Zero” (root)

The script “.doZERO.sh” is available HERE.
Run (root)

$HOME/.doZERO.sh

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VirtualBox On Linux Host

vboxmanage modifymedium –compact

$ ls -al LFS-08-18-disk00*
-rw------- 1 rms46 rms46  3231711232 May 14 21:06 LFS-08-18-disk001.vdi
-rw------- 1 rms46 rms46 12700352512 May 14 21:06 LFS-08-18-disk002.vdi

$ vboxmanage modifymedium --compact LFS-08-18-disk001.vdi 
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%

$ vboxmanage modifymedium --compact LFS-08-18-disk002.vdi 
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%

$ ls -al LFS-08-18-disk00*
-rw------- 1 rms46 rms46 3101687808 May 10 08:40 LFS-08-26-disk001.vdi
-rw------- 1 rms46 rms46 5203034112 May 10 08:42 LFS-08-26-disk002.vdi

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VirtualBox On Windows Host

‘\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe’ modifymedium –compact

Directory: C:\...\VirtualBox VMs\LFS-08-26-DEMO
Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a----         5/14/2021   8:12 PM     3165650944 LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk001.vdi
-a----         5/14/2021   8:12 PM    12700352512 LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk002.vdi

PS C:\...\LFS-08-26-DEMO> & 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe' modifymedium --compact .\LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk001.vdi
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
PS C:\...\LFS-08-26-DEMO> & 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe' modifymedium --compact .\LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk002.vdi
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%

Directory: C:\...\LFS-08-26-DEMO
Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a----         5/14/2021   8:16 PM     3096444928 LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk001.vdi
-a----         5/14/2021   8:17 PM     5032116224 LFS-08-26-DEMO-disk002.vdi

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