From: Piavlo <piavka@cs.bgu.ac.il>
To: John Wong <johnw@wonghome.net>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can i shrink the image file size?
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:47:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C54458.70201@cs.bgu.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49C519C6.2020908@wonghome.net>
You can create another smaller disk image and with help of
losetup,kpartx and ntfsclone
clone the ntfs data to the new image.
John Wong wrote:
> I create the 30G qcow2 image file, installed winxp, winxp show me the
> harddisk used 5G, but the image file size is 12G now.
> can i shrink the image file size? how?
> my kvm version is: "kvm-84", qemu version is: "0.9.1".
> please help, thank you.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-21 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-21 16:45 Can i shrink the image file size? John Wong
2009-03-21 19:47 ` Piavlo [this message]
2009-03-21 20:25 ` Luca Tettamanti
2009-03-22 1:12 ` Ross McKay
2009-03-22 4:20 ` Matthew Palmer
2009-03-23 5:26 ` Alberto Treviño
2009-03-23 8:03 ` Ross McKay
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