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ldehaan9
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Shrink Thin-provisioned Ubuntu 18.04 VMDK that ballooned to 2TB

Hello,

I'm currently using the free ESXi hypervisor, and a while back created a template Ubuntu box. I inadvertently set the disk to be thin provisioned.

I recently noticed that one of VMDKs had ballooned to 2TB in size though the datastore itself is < 1 TB. Is it possible to shrink the disk to something resembling its actual size of about 60 GB? I've attached a screenshot. Thanks for your thoughts. 

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