On Mon Jun 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM BST, Celejar wrote:
Can you elaborate, please? Are you recommending that I just stop using
qcow2 going forward and stick to raw?
Yes, if 80GiB is sufficient within the VM.
My understanding is that the former will generally be *more* space
efficient, rather than *less* (in addition to providing additional
functionality, such as snapshotting)?
It can be more efficient, and it can be less, as you've discovered.
If you need functionality that qcow2 provides and raw doesn't, then this
isn't going to be a solution for you. However, converting the disk image
(even from qcow2 to qcow2) *might* result in a smaller second disk image.
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