
I have discovered an easy way to compacting VHDs
Aug 28, 2018 · I ran compact from diskpart (and from Hyper-V on a copy) and it had little effect, shrinking to around 36GB. I googled it and found a utility called SDELETE that zeros unused …
I have discovered an easy way to compacting VHDs
Aug 17, 2022 · Although there's only about 12GB of data on its Ext4 partition, until now the best I've managed is to compact the vhdx to 37GB. Diskpart has a 'compact vdisk' command that …
How to release unused space in VHDX disks? - Ten Forums
Aug 27, 2015 · The problem may apply to VHD disks as well, but I am now using VHDX virtual disks. Does anyone have the necessary expertise of PowerShell to script making VHDX disk …
I have discovered an easy way to compacting VHDs
Aug 28, 2018 · How to Compact a VHDX with a Linux Filesystem Fragmentation in Linux shouldn't be as much of an issue as it is in NTFS, but just in case it would help I also found …
Differencing Hard Disk - Hyper-V - Page 2 - Windows 10 Forums
Aug 21, 2018 · All together, my parent (base) disk plus all three child disks, the VHDX files, use currently a total of 53 GB of storage space. Having done the same three virtual machines …
Compacting virtual hard disks - Windows 10 Forums
Mar 19, 2017 · a) mount vhdx in hyper-v, use disk cleanup etc. b) mount vhdx in host disk management c) shrink c drive to minimum, the re-expand to full size using minitool partition …
Mount or Unmount VHD or VHDX File in Windows 10 | Tutorials
Oct 25, 2023 · Substitute Full path of .vhd or .vhdx file in the command with the actual full path of the .vhd or .vhdx file from step 3 you want to unmount. For example: select vdisk file=" …
Compact a Hyper-V VHD - Windows 10 Forums
Jan 28, 2015 · I've been running it for 3 months now, with at least 2 build updates. But I can't compact the VHD. The used drive space on the VM guest is 16.8 GB, while the size of the …
Create and Set Up New VHD or VHDX File in Windows 10
Apr 23, 2021 · create vdisk file="Full path of .vhd or .vhdx location" maximum=<size> type=expandable. Substitute Full path of .vhd or .vhdx file in the command above with the …
Compress or Uncompress Windows 10 with Compact OS
Jul 5, 2019 · Q2) If already used "compact /exe:xpress16k /c /s:"C:" /a /f /q /i" and i want to change my entire drive to LZX, should I decompress xpress16k before re-compress to LZX? …