If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are ...

At some point in your Linux journey, you’ll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the command line. Jack Wallen shows you how. The Linux command line is an incredibly powerful tool.

On Windows VMs, you'd typically run defrag and Precompact (from precompact.iso), then use VS/VPC to compress the VHD while the VM is offline.<BR><BR>I have a Linux VM with a VHD of ~3GB but df reports ...