Compaction VMDK from VMware 11 does not work

Hello
I try VMware Workstation 11 before I used 10.04, so my host systems is 14.04 Ubuntu 64-bit and Windows 7 64-bit, so I install the new Version of VMware 11 on both systems and after I used the days of view I like to compact a witch Guest OS was a 14.10 Ubuntu 64-bit I user sudo dd if = \u003d/dev/zero of / 0 bit bs = # 20971520 bs = 20 m
in the guest operating system free unused disk space, and then delete the file 0bits with sudo rm /0bits.
powerd off power the virtual computer and go to Options / hard drive and use the Compact function after 5 seconds, it said the disk was compacted successfully, but when I look on the size always has been and will be 65GB so it does nothing!

So I check a cuople of things to ensure that it is not not the file system itself (I mean the real hard disk bad sectors) but that's all is ok no case found and something else works very well.
So I uninstall the 11 VMware and reinstall the Version 10.04 and compaction again this VMDK and after do with Vmware 10.04 size is only 3.6 GB so in my Point I think theres a problem with VMware 11.

Can we reproduce here or got the same problems?

Furthermore, I also try to compact the disk on the host Windows 7 with VMware 11 and 10 and this is the same problem vmware 11 dose does not but vmware 10 compact very well.

Here are some data on the system I'm working on:

AMD 4 x 3.6 GHz

8 GB Ram

hard drives 2 1. 500 GB for systems

and 2. 1 TB data/work disc the drive working is Formatet on NTFS.
(I also try to reduce the VMDK on an Ext4 Partition and it doesn't!) Only with the VMware Version 10.04 it Compact always the VMDK)

So in this case can you help me or tell me what im doing wrong?

Greetz Anatol

I had the same problem.

My VMDK is also more and more everyday and can't be shrunk in VMware 11.

I found a temporal solution.

Executes command (my guest OS is ubuntu 14.04) below

# "0" in all unused area filling

Cat/dev/zero > filling

Sync

filling of RM

# run vmware operating system tool, invited

# in my case, it must be installed in/usr/bin /.

# I have set location in my root "/", any region will be shrunk as much

sudo disc vmware-toolbox-cmd shrinkonly /.

He worked at my side.

You can try this way temporally.

Good luck

Stanley

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