Shrinking virtual hard disk image
US9501225B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 10, 2012 |
| Grant date | Nov 22, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 19, 2033 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2206/1004
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present disclosure introduces a method and an apparatus of shrinking virtual hard disk image file. The present techniques search a garbage data block in a file and revise a record of the garbage data block in a block allocation table (BAT). The file includes one or more data blocks and a BAT that records information of each data block. The garbage data block is a data block that does not store effective data. The present techniques move an effective data block subsequent to the garbage data block, revise a record of the effective data block in the BAT after the moving, and shrink a size of the file after the movement.
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