# Shrink a Windows virtual machine disk image **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Virtualization\ **Created:** [October 25, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/shrink-a-windows-virtual-machine-disk-image/22064 "2011-10-25T16:25:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/shrink-a-windows-virtual-machine-disk-image/22064/1 "2011-10-25T16:25:49Z")
Hi, I am running SLES11sp1 as Dom0 with a couple of Windows Server 2003 as virtual machines. Is it possible to shrink the disk image used by the Windows DomUs. Regards John ---
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I do not know of a way, but I’d bet the PlateSpin product line has the answer. With that in mind, will windows allow this with NTFS normally? I know technically you can (OpenSUSE’s installer does it for you to make space for itself) but I do not know how safe it is. What if your disk is full… is that detected or are data just thrown out, corrupted, etc.? What about fragmentation that has forever plagued windows filesystems; are files rearranged when shrinking or are fragments lost only to be discovered when the files are accessed and found to be missing data? Good luck. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - [http://enigmail.mozdev.org/](http://enigmail.mozdev.org/) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPR458AAoJEF+XTK08PnB5ygAP/0exBzh1TLRgNNckS9D6jhwJ xKdta+lqqb5OtoOoDE7UqSrNG4JnlwZG3/7X9nyK9LXkBFyWF+Oc1r9Zw72DRVld l01JVHzMDtRRviagfwPlMKPFGpU7QIhBSSYQIV0FbUSHZ34x9/prAuPSez4yvuRm CWotH9zLmACB7vqDu9v/tcGp37mZGswBA3rootVqzuGX1ZARImOmZpd1ine8myfy xgmGWK/DldtE510o7GQSnNiyoiZxxF9uNpFTMcp1VOWhYRkIk4i2gkAgkhw71TF7 vtktSJKSuoyFAwwIS4A34a2R7L6ZTkBy8o7+Mj6vsPe2AcHHmQzJ1xi/B6xJ4ogk A9tq6OUwgfXHzuuyTGoIprA88J94cefKY7SlK4mi5i/SFVJUNM2Jg5hQGH3T2aRd MR1VNWvKiBb/hipvr1UnbJzbPY2TMZd6Dts/a/jNE5eIKj7bpwzQgn1BtrK6YnGu 0eicvYBdJkDnyTGOlObA06qKojHGyi97G7Upj1iXfhc0VuJbwLBvHq9fGVUxKMDU lnTcGOc408BUh3e+M0ZRaxFlcEBiDmxJNn8RHScEGXsxr2A/aIydBiTghxCdpNIa RNI0SxA7Mo2gNbxGypA9f2yoJs7Eq6Mvsr4UQaiR9aYlJOXtUQJxI+pUfGrneBD1 V2VRB9XkSzQFZbEZtXdY =wulm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----