On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 13:41:20 PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > if you have a virtual machine with growable disks and delete a lot of > data the disk will not get smaller, shrink the disk will not really work > > after write zeros to the free space in the guest you can successful > shrink the virtual disk on the host system ok, now I get what you meant, thanks. And I also realize I forgot a part in my initial question: how to do the same thing with the swap partition? Would this technique still work or make the system unusable? (as I said, what I'm looking at is how to clean a live, running system, hence the question) Marco -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org