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Santhosh
Santhosh

Reputation: 11834

reduce the maximum capacity of a .vdi file

I am using linux. I have a dynamically alloted.vdi (virtual disk) with maximum capacity of 5.5gb. Presnetly the stuff inside is 500 mb and the stuff may increase till 750 mb

I want to reduce the maximum capacity from 5.5 gb to 1gb. Because my host system has only 3gb left and when i try to use the vdi (of max capacity 5.5gb) it doesnt work. If i shrink the harddisks maximum capacity to 1 gb then this vdi will open in virtual box.

is there any command using vboxmanage.

I also heard that if we convert to raw image we can then shrink.

so how to convert img and shrink

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1309

Answers (1)

loki
loki

Reputation: 387

Use this to resize ur vdi and then reboot your vm with gparted live iso file http://gparted.org/livecd.php and resize it using gparted.

VBoxmanage modifyhd MyLinux.vdi --resize 100000

Upvotes: 0

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