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This HowTo covers the steps necessary to shrink a VMware Server 2.0 virtual disk. Two techniques are available, one involving VMware Tools and the another using the commandline command line ''vmware-vdiskmanager'' tool. Both approaches will be covered in this guide.
Before beginning this process it is important to understand a few points:
== Shrinking a Virtual Disk from the Command Line ==
The size of a VMware virtual disk may be reduced from the command line using the ''vmware-vdiskmanager''tool. If the disk to be shrunk is pre-allocated it must first be converted to a growable disk, the syntax for which is:
vmware-vdiskmanager -r ''<oldfilename>.vmdk'' -t ''<type> <newfilename>.vmdk''
