On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:31:25 -0800, Darren New wrote:

>> Oh, definitely. And that's why I was hoping that the VMware Tools might
>> include a tool to zero unused sectors. But apparently not...
> 
> Linux does.  I don't know of anything in vmware to deallocate sectors,
> even if they're all zeros.

VMware tools' shrink functionality zeros the unused sectors out before 
shrinking it.  The Linux VMware tools do as well, for that matter.

Jim

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