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**[VMware Workstation](https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-pro.html)** and **[Fusion](https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html)** normally work hard to minimize the size of virtual hard disks for optimizing the amount of storage needed on your host machine . On Windows virtual machines, [VMware has a “clean up” function](https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/11/com.vmware.fusion.using.doc/GUID-6BB29187-F47F-41D1-AD92-1754036DACD9.html), which detects newly unused space and makes the size of the virtual hard disk smaller accordingly. You’ll notice that even if you create a virtual machine with a capacity of 60 GB, for example, the actual size of the VMDK file will dynamically resize to fit the usage of the guest operating system. 60 GB is simply the maximum amount of storage allowed; if your guest operating system and its files amount to 20 GB, the VMDK file will simply be 20 GB.
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We need to right click on the .vmwarevm "file," and select **Show Package Contents** to see what's really in there. You should see the actual .VMDK file sitting there – normally we're looking for the plain VMDK file (named _Virtual Disk.vmdk_ by default) without a bunch of numbers after it, but if you have snapshots associated with your VM, this might not be the file we actually want. But run the command below with it anyways, and the output will tell you if you need to use a different file.
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Now, we're going to run our final command in our **host** terminal, so open that up. Linux installations of VMware Workstation should have a simple map to the _vmware-vdiskmanager_ utility that you can run anywhere, but on macOS we need to tell it exactly where that's located: in the Applications folder, where Fusion is installed.