VMware Player 15 compact hard disk not working

[jackreacher]

I have a VM runiing CentOS in it.

After deleting some files with several GB in size within the VM i shut it down and selected "Edit virtual machine settings" - "Hard Disk" - "Compact" to compact the disk and save space on the host.

This doesnt work. There is no progress bar appearing - it says directly "The disk was successfully compacted". But it wasnt. The current size did not change.

Same happens with "Defragment".

[wila]

Hi,

Please see this article for tips on how-to shrink the disk for a Linux guest.

Shrink guest on hosted platform - VI-Toolkit

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Wil