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From: John Wong <johnw@wonghome.net>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Can i shrink the image file size?
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:45:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C519C6.2020908@wonghome.net> (raw)

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.

             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-21 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-21 16:45 John Wong [this message]
2009-03-21 19:47 ` Can i shrink the image file size? Piavlo
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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