The ‘Disk Cleanup’ function in the VMWare Fusion GUI seems to be of no help with shrinking Linux virtual disks. Use the VMWare CLI tools within your virtual machine for real results. This method just shrunk my disk by ~50%!
[root@bubbles.t3ch.com ~]# vmware-toolbox-cmd disk list / /boot [root@bubbles.t3ch.com ~]# vmware-toolbox-cmd disk shrink / Progress: 100 [===========>]
