I'm trying to shrink a Linux guest which once needed 10GB of space but now only needs 4GB. I've resized the partitions but no matter what I do the size of the VMDK files are always the same - 10GB. I've tried all kinds of things to reclaim the space and shrink the vmdk but no matter what I do the size of the vmdk files are always 10GB. I tried to compact it in VMWare workstations, I tried to run it through "vmware-vdiskmanger -k", I tried importing it into ESX 4 changing the disk type to Thin but nothing. How do I get the size of the VM (and therefor its vmdk) down to about 4GB which is all its actually using now as shown in the screenshot?
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