>>> 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.

I'll have a look when I'm back in the office...

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