friend is coming to the installfest on the second!

[Brian Cluff]

I've always used "eraser" (http://eraser.heidi.ie/) to do the same 
thing.  I zero out all the space on a VM and turned it into a sparse 
file so that it takes up hardly any space.  I've even been known to put 
a VM that is bigger than the entire hosts hard drive using the same 
technique.  Sounds like a bad idea, but I was tending to run the VM in 
immutable mode, so the VMs HD didn't get any bigger and was never in any 
danger of filling up the hosts hard drive, but it allowed me to have a 
generic VM that I could use as writable on some systems and that would 
leave me enough space to install software if I needed to.

Brian Cluff

On 01/31/2013 07:47 PM, Stephen wrote:
> They might be talking about sdelete. I use it when prepping and
> condensing windows vm's for making templates or condensing/shrinking.
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx
>
> On Jan 31, 2013 7:44 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     yeah.... I googled it and could only find 'disk cleanup' so I
>     figured that is what was meant.
>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>     On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com
>     <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Disk tools cleanup or you talking that purging the deleted files
>         and free space?
>
>         On Jan 31, 2013 3:52 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             wait a second...... what is 'disk clean'?
>             :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>             On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Michael Havens
>             <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 already did.
>                 :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>                 On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Dazed_75
>                 <lthielster at gmail.com <mailto:lthielster at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                     We will look for her.  If she wants to dual-boot
>                     with Windows, ask her to disk clean and defrag
>                     Windows before Saturday.
>
>                     On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Michael Havens
>                     <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                         A woman I know in Mesa is coming to get linux
>                         put on her computer on the second. She is even
>                         bringing her ex-boyfriend. Her name is Angie.
>                         :-)~MIKE~(-:
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