[Cialug] cloning workstation

Dave Hala Jr dave at 58ghz.net
Wed Dec 28 15:17:29 CST 2011


I going to convert an existing centos 5 workstation to a VirtualBox VM

I plan on doing a:

dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=sdc1.img bs=1024

and then do a "VBoxManage convertfromraw" to create the VDI image.

My question is: the Centos workstation lives on a 250gb drive, but only
uses about 85gb. Is there an easy way to end up with a .VDI that is
around a 100gb or so?

:) Dave 



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