1) Turn on virtual machine
2) open bash and type this command
dd if=/dev/zero of=/empty_file; rm /empty_file
3) shutdown virtual machine
4) mv name_disk.vmdk name_disk-unshrinked.vmdk
5) vmware-vdiskmanager -r name_disk-unshrinked.vmdk -t 0 name_disk.vmdk
6) rm -f name_disk-unshrinked.vmdk
I’ve Virtual Machine called “maps” and i want change into “mapsnew”
0) shutdown the virtual machine
For first i backup the directory 🙂
1) cp -arx maps/ maps.backup/
2) cd maps/
3) vmware-diskmanager -n maps.vmdk mapsnew.vmdk
4) i rename all file called maps into mapsnew
5) into configuration file mapsnew.vmx change all reference maps into mapsnew (this is possible use also sed command: sed -i ‘s/maps/mapsnew/g’ mapsnew.vmx
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tar cvjf - directory/ | split -d -b 4G - filename.tar.bz2.
If you want to restore the file, first copy all te parts in one directory, and then type
cat filename.iso.tar.gz.* | tar xvzf -
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