On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:01:25AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 25/05/10 15:32, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > truncate -r old-disk.img -s +10% new-disk.img > > > > truncate -r old-disk.img -s 110% new-disk.img > > I'm a little less enthusiastic about the need for that. > Given how awkward it is to achieve then I might do it > (as a separate patch). Here's how you'd might do it > handling overflow currently: [...] > I guess it would be OK to truncate the result > rather than round to nearest?
We offer a similar feature in virt-resize, and there we just truncate the result. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
