Space in HyperV

[Roshan]

Hello,

there is an issue I am getting using HyperV. Whenever I do a cloning on a virtual machine(fresh environment) it will take a certain amount of space(say 120Gb). But When I delete all the files, the space occupied will never decrease(will remain at 120GB). This is causing a big problem since we have to create a new Virtual machine once on the server it reaches 1Tera How can I recover the space once I delete files?

Rgds,
Roshan

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

How do you clone and then how do you delete the files ?

Send me the commands or action plans you have followed.

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

I m not a HyperV expert bytheway, but will try to help.

[Roshan]

After the clone is completed, after I delete the data folder and database home folders(around 120gb), using rm -rf <foldernames>, the space on the server remains 120gb.

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

Read this carefully. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/virtual_pc_guy/2010/03/10/understanding-where-your-virtual-machine-files-are-hyper-v/

you may be missing some files to delete.