Reclaim free space of a Virtual-Machine in VMware

When working with an active virtual machine we often encounter a problem with the storage space of the volume, occupied by the host/storage. Background:When you create a virtual machine there are two best practices to create the virtual hard-drive: Thin Provisioning and thick-provisioning, as explained in details here.Well, In thin provisioning, we expect the volume…

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Map a Windows Share in Linux

Preface Linux has 2 files that contains the mount points: /etc/mtab is a file maintained by the Operating system and should not be touched. /etc/fstab is a file where we can place all the mappings you would like to create Both are loaded when the operating system starts, and as shown later , can be mounted manually. In…

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