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The great thing about this is that it only zero's out the parts of the disk that are not zero and as such the disk does not inflate to its full size. | The great thing about this is that it only zero's out the parts of the disk that are not zero and as such the disk does not inflate to its full size. | ||
* [https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ssd-trim-maintenance.56951/post-328912 Detail comment from Theodore Ts'o on using fstrim] | |||
* [https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/457 Avoid disk expansion while shrinking (github issue tracker)] | |||
== Zero out unused space on a Windows VM == | == Zero out unused space on a Windows VM == | ||
