> I know that, but I'm running a pair of debian etch boxes over vmware, > and the disk images have grown to almost tripple the size of the > actual installation. I want to reclaim the 3+ GBs on the partition > (I'm running a bit short on disk space), and in order for the vmware > utility to compact the image, I need to defrag the filesystem first.
I don't know what vmware does to provide a file system to your debian guest. But I'm pretty sure there is no need to defragment your file system. What type of file system do you use? ext2/3, reiserfs, xfs, ...? >From what you write, I think you want to resize your file system in order to be able to free part of the underlying file/block device in the host. I case you have ext2 or ext3 you need to fsck the FS first, then resize2fs(8). resize2fs is part of the e2fsprogs package. The other file systems have similar tools. urs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
