Re: [qubes-users] Shrinking a private volume

2019-03-24 Thread Chris Laprise
On 3/24/19 4:15 AM, 799 wrote: Hello Unman, unman mailto:un...@thirdeyesecurity.org>> schrieb am So., 24. März 2019, 03:17: [...] We're all working on the assumption that you  have Qubes 4.0 - can you confirm that? Yes, of course - sorry for not mentioning this, but I don't see

Re: [qubes-users] Shrinking a private volume

2019-03-24 Thread 799
Hello Unman, unman schrieb am So., 24. März 2019, 03:17: > [...] > We're all working on the assumption that you have Qubes 4.0 - can you > confirm that? > Yes, of course - sorry for not mentioning this, but I don't see why someone would run Q3.2, I have switched to 4.0 shortly after the

Re: [qubes-users] Shrinking a private volume

2019-03-23 Thread unman
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 01:59:27PM +0100, onw7two99 wrote: > Hello Chris, > > thank you once again for your feedback. > > On 3/23/19 11:31 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: > > On 3/23/19 5:34 AM, onw7two99 wrote: > >> I run sudo fstrim -av from within the AppVM (as root) but I haven't > >> notive any

Re: [qubes-users] Shrinking a private volume

2019-03-23 Thread onw7two99
Hello Chris, thank you once again for your feedback. On 3/23/19 11:31 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: > On 3/23/19 5:34 AM, onw7two99 wrote: >> I run sudo fstrim -av from within the AppVM (as root) but I haven't >> notive any change. > > The difference doesn't show until you shutdown the vm for the

Re: [qubes-users] Shrinking a private volume

2019-03-23 Thread Chris Laprise
On 3/23/19 5:34 AM, onw7two99 wrote: Hello Brendan On 2/28/19 3:14 AM, brendan.h...@gmail.com wrote: I’ve found it necessary sometimes to sudo fstrim -av from inside the VM in order for the dom0 lvm thin provisioned volumes to return the unallocated space back to the pool. This doesn’t

Re: [qubes-users] Shrinking a private volume

2019-03-23 Thread onw7two99
Hello Brendan On 2/28/19 3:14 AM, brendan.h...@gmail.com wrote: > I’ve found it necessary sometimes to sudo fstrim -av from inside the VM in > order for the dom0 lvm thin provisioned volumes to return the unallocated > space back to the pool. > This doesn’t shrink the volume but it does tell

Re: [qubes-users] Shrinking a private volume

2019-02-27 Thread Chris Laprise
On 2/27/19 9:14 PM, brendan.h...@gmail.com wrote: I’ve found it necessary sometimes to sudo fstrim -av from inside the VM in order for the dom0 lvm thin provisioned volumes to return the unallocated space back to the pool. This doesn’t shrink the volume but it does tell the system that it

Re: [qubes-users] Shrinking a private volume

2019-02-27 Thread brendan . hoar
I’ve found it necessary sometimes to sudo fstrim -av from inside the VM in order for the dom0 lvm thin provisioned volumes to return the unallocated space back to the pool. This doesn’t shrink the volume but it does tell the system that it doesn’t need to store anything there for that VM

Re: [qubes-users] Shrinking a private volume

2019-02-27 Thread unman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:30:35PM +0100, 799 wrote: > Hello, > > I've migrated ~150gb of data into a Qubes Storage Qube. > After cleaning up older files I have reduced the data to 100gb. > Now I'd like to free the additional 50gb so that dom0 can use this capacity > for other qubes. > You dont

Re: [qubes-users] Shrinking a private volume

2019-02-27 Thread 799
Hello Stuart, On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 01:57, Stuart Perkins wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:30:35 +0100 > 799 wrote: > >Honestly I don't understand why it is not possible to shrink a volume as > >this is something which can done in linux. > >Does someone has an idea how to "reclaim" the free