On Tue Jun 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM BST, Celejar wrote:
Okay - I tried running "qemu-img convert" with both "-O raw" and "-O
qcow2", and I ended up with similarly sized files, about 57GB, which is
the size of the actual data on the VM disk. So I'm going to continue
with qcow2, and just note for future reference that I may need to do a
conversion every now and then. I see now that the "qemu-img" man page
actually acknowledges this:
"Image conversion is also useful to get smaller image when using a
growable format such as qcow: the empty sectors are detected and
suppressed from the destination image."
Thanks for the help!
No problem, glad it worked!
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