Hi all

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=metadata guest 8G

The above command will alllocate all the 8GB to the diskimage.

means

[root@t06 p]# ls -lh

total 1.4M

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.1G Mar 7 12:43 guest

is there is any way to allocate metadata to half size or predefined size ?

i.e 4GB will be allocated and rest 4GB can be allocated dynamically

Pankaj Rawat