AFAIK defragmentation tools do not discard unused blocks: it merely rearranges blocks.
Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Ruben Bosch CLDIN > On 22 Dec 2022, at 22:57, Granwille Strauss <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Ruben > > Thanks, I use standard throughout. But will investigate fstrim. However, what > of using e4defrag would this make a difference? > > On 12/22/22 23:53, Ruben Bosch wrote: >> If the disk is thin allocated you will need to run fstrim >> <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/fstrim.8.html> >> <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/fstrim.8.html> to discard unused >> blocks. >> >> Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, >> >> Ruben Bosch >> CLDIN >> >>> On 22 Dec 2022, at 22:40, Granwille Strauss <[email protected]> >>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> Just a follow up question on this. If you have a 60 GB VM, for example and >>> after a month or year said VM has reached its quota limit. And you proceed >>> to delete files and so lowering the usage to 20 GB out of 60GB within VM, >>> why is that the VM physical disk size does not decrease? What's the best >>> method via CM to clean up physical disk usage to match data within VM? >>> >>> On 12/22/22 14:54, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Ah just wait - i misread your 'df -h' output. >>>> You can ignore my link regarding this issue. >>>> >>>> Sorry for that. >>>> >>>> Am Do., 22. Dez. 2022 um 13:13 Uhr schrieb Granwille Strauss < >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>>> >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>>>> Thanks I will check this out. However, I think I messed up too. From the >>>>> 160 GB allocated via CM it seems I partitioned my VM wrong. I end >>>>> partitioning was too much. I set / partition too high now its causing the >>>>> 165 GB. Will check again and provide update. >>>>> On 12/22/22 13:57, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> you've been using 'vm snapshots'? >>>>> Sounds similar to my experience, you can find it and explanation in the >>>>> mailing >>>>> list:https://lists.apache.org/thread/fg7147so1wmdhvh5xcoh4ddbdv6r4l5w >>>>> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/fg7147so1wmdhvh5xcoh4ddbdv6r4l5w> >>>>> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/fg7147so1wmdhvh5xcoh4ddbdv6r4l5w> >>>>> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/fg7147so1wmdhvh5xcoh4ddbdv6r4l5w> >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Am Do., 22. 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