rw- 1 bryan staff 4299 28 Oct 08:49 BuildInkscape.vbox I kept a copy of the original disk before doing any of this - before/after comparisons belowĬode: Select all Expand view Collapse view BuildInkscape % VBoxManage modifymedium -compact BuildInkscape % ls -l It seems the documentation in Chapter 8 is misleading and it is much safer to specify the deviceID rather than the root path "/" Press 'return' and wait until the command completes.If you choose to type the path manually, please remember to take into account any spaces in the path. The normal rules of escaping spaces in paths are done automatically if you use drag and drop. Please note that there should be a space character between 'compact' and the beginning of the file name. vdi file from the Finder window to complete the command. Type 'VBoxManage modifymedium -compact ' then drag the.Open Terminal - do NOT elevate privileges.This will open a Finder window showing your VM. In the VirtualBox Manager, right click the VM entry in the left column and select 'Show in Finder'.a complete shutdown and not "saved state" or "power off" Wait until this completes - it may take some time depending on the type of disk (SSD vs HDD) and the size of the disk.
diskutil secureErase freespace 0 "device ID from 2 - without quotes".In the Terminal, 'sudo su -' to give yourself elevated privileges.Alternatively use 'diskutil list' from the command line to find the device ID of the volume Use Disk Utility to find the device ID of the volume you wish to compact - please note - you need the volume ID, not the whole diskĢa.I have just manged to compact a Mojave boot drive using the following commands. But let's keep the discussion about the way to compress an OSX 10.14 VDI in your new, more relevant thread. Can you focus on that thread and leave this one (that was resolved in 2017) sleep? You gave a warning for 10.14 guests, fine.
vdi for upload/download, which practically talks about the same thing. It's on my "to-do list" for the longest of already opened a new thread about this, Strategies for compressing huge. Since I haven't installed 10.14/15 yet, I can't personally do the testing.
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How do I know? Because that's exactly what happened 7 years ago, and amended 3 years later, after Apple once again changed their tune: #11175: Add documentation for zeroing Mac OS X guests before using the 'modifyhd -compact' operation.īe sure that I'm going to be the first that wakes that ticket again, once a proper solution is found.
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If you find a proper workaround/solution, and 10.14/15 become officially supported, then the User Manual may be corrected to reflect that aspect. You can't have instructions on the User Manual for something that's not supported. The "not supported" part means that the User Manual stays "as is". Fth0 wrote:IMO the example command in the VirtualBox User Manual is simply wrong* and should be corrected.
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