On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 06:55:15 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I wonder if qemu-ing convert will convert from > qcows2 to qcows2? I will see!
Yep, that's how I always sparsified my files before the virt-sparsify tool existed. Write zeroes till you run out of space (thus making all the free space on the disk blocks of zeroes), shut down the VM, and qemu-img convert from qcow2 to qcow2. The destination file is much smaller (usually) but has the same data in it. Rename the file and now the VM takes less space. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
