title: VMWare ESXi 4.1 - Shrink Thin disk (without Storage vMotion or "sdelete"/filling disk with 0's)
body: <p>I have a 100GB Thin disk which is about 80GB vmdk file on the storage device. The disk really only has 10GB of files stored on it (ie ~70GB free). How can I shrink the ~80GB vmdk back down to ~10GB noting that the VMWare tools show the "shrink" option isn't available and I can't use any of the other techniques I've seen (such as sdelete/zero-fill and "vStorage motion" it) because either a) I don't have another temporary storage location and b) the current storage location doesn't have enough raw space left to allow for the expanded zero fill.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any other methods to shrink a vmdk on ESXi 4.1?</p>