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From: John Wong <johnw@wonghome.net>
Subject: Can i shrink the image file size?
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:45:58 +0800
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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.