From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: qcow2 image growing without reason ? Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:09:37 +0300 Message-ID: <46AC4B41.7050907@qumranet.com> References: <20070726130252.GA1913@bsp.scarlet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Ben Budts Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070726130252.GA1913-FwLs51Cl57fY4EFHVxF16w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Ben Budts wrote: > Hi, > > I've been running kvm21 for a long time (just upgraded to kvm-33 with 2.6.22.1) > > I have a 60GB qcow2 image, I noticed the image was growing without me installing software on the guest os...(WIN XP) > > When I select all my files and take properties (in win xp that is), it says 3.7GB, as expected... > > The image is allmost the double though (6.4GB) when i look at the qcow2 image, > when taking the properties of the HD in win xp it also indictates 6.4GB. > > I've been installing some software, after each install I did a restart, bakupped the image etc... > > Any idea's ? > > If Windows says the disk size is 6.4GB, then the qcow image certainly can't be smaller. Maybe you have a large paging file, or perhaps you need to run chkdsk. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/