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It looks like when I set-up Vmware I chose the split the Virtual Disk option. Well now I have over 30GB of vmdk files. I do not want to loose my data that I have in the VM, so I do not want to re-install.
Is there a way of combining all the vmdk files into one, and set the VM to moving forward only use one vmdk file?
user2676140
Posted 2016-06-21T22:53:56.473
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1https://vmexpo.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/how-to-merge-multiple-vmdks-into-single-vmdk/comment-page-1/ – misha256 – 2016-06-21T23:05:38.057
Note that even if you merge all of your .vmdk files into a single one, that single .vmdk file will still take up over 30 GB. Additionally, merging them all into a single file will make it harder to shrink the .vmdk files later.
– jamesdlin – 2016-06-22T23:45:35.290@jamesdlin - do I have an option then to reduce the amount of disk space that the VM is taking up? – user2676140 – 2016-06-23T12:40:47.633
Yes, it's calling shrinking. Go to VM > Settings > Hardware > Hard Disk > Compact. For a Windows guest, there's also VM > Manage > Clean up Disks which is more efficient (but which is specific to NTFS guest file systems). – jamesdlin – 2016-06-23T16:54:41.020